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January 23, 2013

Prominent Gamifiers: Julia Stiglitz and Coursera

Ivan Kuo34 mins

Coursera was a very integral part in growing the gamification community in 2012, largely due in part to Kevin Werbach’s class on gamification. However, Couresera’s ability to have effectively delivered a strong massive open online course (MOOC) is a testament to its ability to appeal to everyone’s intrinsic desires to learn. Its hard to believe how a system could appeal to 12 thousand students interested in gamification and have them complete 7 weeks of lectures, homeworks, and testing to receive a small certificate of completion. Coursera is doing something right and Julia Stiglitz is part of that team making it happen.

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Gabe Zichermann on the Hard Truths of Gamification

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Earlier today, Gabe Zichermann had an Op-Ed go live on The Huffington Post entitled The Hard Truths of Gamification, in which he addresses most of the misunderstandings revolving around gamification and lays down all of the gamification’s clear triumphs in during the last two years.

Gabe describes a number of significant gamification successes in business, education, and health to  support his arguments and lays down a strong foundation for an anyone dealing with a gamification skeptic. Although, not everybody was convinced and in true gamified fashion Gabe was awarded a particular badge.

What do you think? Is gamification the future of motivation or do his arguments fall flat? Read the full article and decide for yourself.

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gsummitX Tel-Aviv Videos Now on YouTube!

Kevin Shane01 mins

If you’ve never attended one of our gsummitX meetups before, now’s your chance to experience some of the great speakers we sign up for our events. Watch the video below to hear some great sessions from our last gsummitX meetup at Tel-Aviv this past December. Some of these sessions include, talks on marketing gamification, the IDF Blog’s gamification story, and the brains behind Freshbiz, the Entrepreneurship Game, that we covered this past summer.

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more gsummitX and GSummit session videos.

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