August 3, 2026
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Victor Manrique on Teaching the World Gamification Design

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Victor Manrique is a prominent gamification community member, author of EpicWinBlog, and professor of Iversity’s Gamification Design MOOC (also free!) who joined our weekly Gamification Revolution webshow to talk about teaching gamification design to the masses. He is joined by Gabe Zichermann to talk about his experiences teaching and discussed:

  • Differences between game design and gamification
  • Philosophies behind teaching a gamification Design MOOC
  • Learning other disciplines to strengthen gamification
  • Balancing game design

And much more! Watch their full interview below to get all the talking and be sure to join us this Thursday for our next episode featuring Sascha Goto of McKinsey to discuss his work in bringing gamification into IT Management. Click through to get show reminders!

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The Grammar Olympics: How to Gamify Teaching on a Budget

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Some of the most exciting things happening in education are the advancements in education technologies, like classroom-wide tablet systems and online learning platforms but it doesn’t mean a creative lesson plan can’t be just as effective.

Amy Baskin, an English professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville, created a teaching-system that combined a series of “Olympic-style” events revolving around teaching grammar conventions. Professor Baskin took the stage at GSummit SF 2013 to share her story with the Grammar Olympics and shows us all how there is no substitute for great teachers.

Also, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest videos from GSummit SF 2013 as they’re released. You can also download a copy of Amy’s presentation by downloading it here.

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Educating with WoW and Minecraft with Lucas Gillispie

Ivan Kuo01 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.

This past week’s guest was Lucas Gillispie, educator and creator of Edurealms — a site dedicated to providing educational materials that make use of games like World of Warcraft and Minecraft. Check out the full video to learn about Lucas’ insights on using games in the classroom and some of the challenges he faces.

Be sure to catch tomorrow’s episode at 1PM EDT with Gabe for another gamification design QnA on the Gamification Revolution

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Top Articles for Education Gamification in 2012

Ivan Kuo06 mins

Behold! Gamification Co’s Best of 2012 series will conclude with the best of Education from last year. The education community showed intense engagement with these articles for here and I hope that these resources may inspire countless classrooms to change into engagement powerhouses for students. Read on about how some of Blizzard’s most popular games are education High School and College classes, an iPad app to train Autistic children, a classroom gamifying musical compositions, an interview with Kevin Werbach, Coursera Gamification Professor, and finally – a full six part series by an expert educator discusses gamification’s current role in modern education. Get schooled after the jump

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Why Bother with Games in Education?

Kevin Shane23 mins

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.

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