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Gamification And Game-Based Learning
The Differences Between Gamification And Game-Based Learning
Gamification strategies are increasingly getting attention and investment in eLearning. In today’s high-pressure world, when everyone is working tight schedules, we tend to learn well only when it’s enjoyable or obviously beneficial to us – and games definitely make the learning more enjoyable. According to Engagement Alliance, the gamification industry is predicted to reach $5.5 billion by 2018. Games keep learners engaged and motivated – 80% of learners feel that game-like learning or jobs could make them more productive (Talent LMS)
What Is Gamification?
Gamification means applying the game design techniques and game mechanics to engage and motivate learners to help them achieve their goals
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Salient Features
Game mechanics and elements are applied to existing content to engage and motivate the learners. Include a collection of tasks with some form of rewards (without necessarily any defined learning objective).
Points, levels, rewards, leaderboard, achievement badges, feedback loops, conditions are some of the key principals used in gamification. It is usually easier and cheaper to introduce gamification in learning.
Benefits Of Gamification
It encourages collaboration, fun, focus, retention, productivity, creativity, and meaningful choices.
It is a great way to change behaviors or encourage specific behaviors, provide immediate feedback and gratification, and track progress
When To Use Gamification?
When you want to encourage the learners to take specific actions.
When you want to motivate the learners and influence their behaviors.
When you want to drive innovation and help the learners in building specific skills.
When you wish to engage the learners while promoting the spirit of competitiveness.
When you wish to provide the learners ways to track their own progress.
Best Practices For Designing Gamification
Keep the game mechanics and structure easy to understand and follow.
Carefully align gamification with the business needs and learning goals.
Make scoring and winning easy and transparent – keep simple rules and keep the leaderboards easy to understand.
Game-Based Learning
Game-based learning is a teaching approach where the learners explore the relevant aspect of games in a learning context designed by teachers.
Salient Features:
In game-based learning, games are used as part of the learning process.
Game-based learning is aimed at teaching a specific skill or achieving a specific learning outcome.
Game-based learning includes the content which is created to fit the story and scenes of the game.
It helps in drawing the learners into the relevant virtual environments that they are familiar with.
It is usually difficult and expensive to build game-based learning.
Benefits Of Game-Based Learning:
It helps in motivating and influencing the learners in a positive way.
It helps in providing context and engaging the learners.
It helps in rememorizing the concepts in a fun way.
It reinforces and consolidates the knowledge in a friendly environment.
When To Use Game-Based Learning
When you want to repackage existing academic content.
When you wish to promote critical and strategic thinking amongst the learners.
When you want to engage and motivate the learners who are otherwise not engaged.
When you want to support the struggling learners in learning better.
Best Practices For Designing Game-Based Learning:
Focus on the learning objectives.
Strike the right chord while making it challenging – it should not be too easy and, at the same time, it should not be as difficult as to frustrate learners.
Make the games interactive and immersive so that the learners can remain focused on the goals and objectives.