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The Gamification of Learning and Instruction
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The Gamification of Learning and Instruction

Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education

Pfeiffer, 2012 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Innovative

Recommendation

In this comprehensive manual, instructional technology professor Karl M. Kapp delves into gamification in all its varied applications. Kapp heeds his own advice: He offers not just the “how” but also the “why,” giving readers procedural knowledge and creative wisdom. The book is repetitive and even awkward, but well informed and thorough. You’ll learn how to build a gamification team, inspire players to follow the game and learn, and develop the gamified education package that best fits your teaching goals. getAbstract recommends this utilitarian, forward-thinking guide to learning professionals who want a doorway into game-based teaching.

Take-Aways

  • A game is a system of “abstracted reality” that guides its players by using “rules, interactivity and feedback.”
  • “Gamification” is the application of game-based dynamics to an educational effort.
  • “Challenge, relevance, confidence, curiosity, control and fantasy” motivate players.

About the Author

Karl M. Kapp teaches instructional technology at Bloomsburg University and has written four books about combining learning and technology.


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    M. A. 10 months ago
    Nice topic to be covered for Gamification.
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    P. A. 8 years ago
    Interesting concepts and ideas. Interesting to see how gamification has moved forward
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    B. A. 1 decade ago
    The concepts presented in this are incredibly relevant to a millennial generation; they/we have grown up playing games of all kinds. This, in conjunction with the 2010 TED talk by Jane McGonigal is a great introduction and level-setter on the power of games (http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world).

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