It’s official. Games have educational value.
For most, this is old news. Games like Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail have been around for years and most of Generation Y has been playing these games as early as the third grade. So what happened to these games and why weren’t there more iconic educational tools like these in school?
Recently we launched the G-Awards, a contest designed to uncover and recognize great contributions in Gamification across a range of industries. We designed the awards to have two tracks – a popular vote (run on the awesome technology of listly) and a juried program, voted on by key thought leaders and designers in gamification. To…
Experts Exchange is a site dedicated to bringing better IT assistance to the world through competitive gamification. Founded back in 1996, Experts Exchange invites knowledgeable techies from all over the world to answer questions from users in need who assign a point value to their query. A leaderboard keeps constant watch over the top experts…
