TechNavio, a research wing of Infinity Research, released a 40-page marketing report in November 2012. The study examines the expected role of Gamification in the North American, European and Pacific Rim areas. The purpose of the research was “to aid decision makers’ understanding of the present and future landscape of the market.”
And the landscape’s terrain is populated by social media and networking.
Gamification/game-based learning and schools can be either complementary or, depending how it is done, make things worse. Using games in education, according to a paper published by two Columbia University educators, Joy Lee and Jessica Hammer.
The good news about gamification is…
Gamification in the classroom can be a particularly effective motivational tool for engagement. It can also be a enable teachers to closely guide and reward their students and bring the students into a truly immersive way to learn. Then there’s the fun and joy in a learning experience that result in a “blurring of boundaries” between the formal and informal learning that students will experience all their lives.
The Department of Veteran Affairs estimates that between 11 and 20% of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars suffer from PTSD. Yet many soldiers who suffer from PTSD are reluctant to seek help and their loved ones may not know how to encourage them to do so. Some researchers are now using games in health as a strategy to get veterans the help they need. “Family of Heroes” by Kognito is an online simulation that helps equip families and friends of veterans to recognize symptoms of post-deployment stress and encourage veterans to seek help at the VA.
Motivate Student Achievement with Game Based Learning Standardized tests are both blessing and bane for teachers. On one hand, testing gives clear benchmarks of student progress. On the other hand, preparing students for standardized tests puts enormous amounts of pressure on teachers and students, and the time required to adequately prepare students for tests can take…
Endless poets have uttered something along the lines of “love is like a game.” So, instead of playing the game by hanging around bars and arguing about who did the dishes last night, PearHaven decided to gamify the entire process of dating. PearHaven is a social media infused website that incorporates a point system and dating…
Using games in education can make learning more interesting and fun, but they also serve another purpose that is perhaps even more important–games teach us that it’s okay to fail. If you think about it, failure is an essential part of learning and growing, yet in so many educational environments failure is discouraged. In this commencement speech, educational…
Games in health are often used to educate patients or promote healthy lifestyles. Now games are being used to educate physicians and medical office staff as well. As more practices adopt electronic health records, patient privacy and data security have become bigger challenges. Smaller practices particularly face challenges in complying with HIPAA standards while coping…
Let’s face it America. Our children are no longer the top academic performers in the world. Teachers are desperately searching for new ways to keep students motivated to learn, occasionally resorting to unconventional strategies. Some teachers feel online, multiplayer games in education may be an effective, fresh way to teach important academic topics. It’s probably safe to…
The #1 School for Entrepreneurship (both Undergraduate & MBA) is definitely on top of their game in engaging their community with the hottest topics & strategies in business. This time up, GAMIFICATION. Babson College, the Babson Alumni Club of NYC, and GamificationCo delivered a stellar evening to the Babson Alumni of NYC this past October…
We’re less than a week away for our first event in Australia–gsummitX AUS. This Monday & Tuesday (12-13 November), we’re bringing together top experts in gamification, engagement & loyalty for two days. Day 1 will start off with the only gamification workshop that offers a gamification certification, facilitated by Gabe Zichermann. Day 2 continues with an…
Every year millions… No, make that billions… Of our country’s tax dollars and philanthropic funds are funneled into university scientific research labs to facilitate revolutionary – even world saving – studies. But what happens to the all that research? Where do all these world saving discoveries end up? According to three British PhD students, “95…
Just a fun fact for this lovely Friday. In 1919, Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop aircraft flight between New York and Paris. The Orteig Prize was the early 20th century equivalent to X PRIZE’s Ansari Challenge. Competitions like these that are used for grand innovation are fantastic examples of…
Badgeville has become the first gamification provider for TIBCO’s tibbr–an enterprise social networking platform. “Badgeville will be available in the tibbr Apps Marketplace, and will make it possible for tibbr users to earn contextually relevant rewards mapped to their expertise and contributions within the tibbr platform.” via Badgeville’s Blog
The sports world has a new player in town and it’s being backed by Drew Brees and Rob Dyrdek. WedgeBuster is being called the “Zynga for sports” with its new gaming platform. The idea is that WedgeBuster aggregates the top sports, fantasy sports, and social sports games all within one place, or one app. By using…
Bunchball announced that they are partnering with SugarCRM. Bunchball’s Nitro platform will enable gamification features on Sugar’s Professional, Corporate, Enterprise, and Ultimate suite editions. Read more about this story on DestinationCRM.com. Also, read about Nitro’s (Bunchball) recent news about their Salesforce integration
