D3.js - Data-Driven Documents. “This Game Sucks”: How to Improve the Gamification of Education (EDUCAUSE Review. Sarah "Intellagirl" Smith-Robbins (sabsmith@indiana.edu) is Director of Emerging Technologies and a faculty member at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
With this issue of EDUCAUSE Review, she begins a one-year term as Editor of the New Horizons department. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. "Focusing on the ways that entertainment technology engages us can result in methods that we can transfer to any learning situation. " Gamification. Maybe you've heard of it. Education has been a system of status and points since the dawn of the Industrial Age. What Is a Game? The first step is to understand exactly what a game is. A goal: Every game has a win condition: the combination of events and accomplishments that players need to achieve in order to end the game. True gamification requires that all three characteristics be present.
Is Higher Education Already a Game? Last is the issue of collaboration and competition. Notes. Gamifikacja. The Hero's Journey. Gamification. Periodic Table of Storytelling.