Thursday’s Trending eLearning Topic: Gamification

Thursday's Trending eLearning Topic: Gamification

A few weeks ago, we had a fantastic webinar with Karl Kapp, Professor of Instructional Technology and author of the bestselling book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Called “How to Think Like a Game Designer: Pro Tips for eLearning,” the webinar showed attendees how a game designer would approach eLearning instruction—as opposed to an instructional designer.The result was an interesting perspective on creating interactive and game-based learning. If you missed the webinar, I encourage you to check out the recording.In the webinar, Karl shared the benefits of action and activity compared to instruction alone, along with how you can boost learner engagement and recall. Karl supported his points with research on how and why games are effective for learning. This session was full of fresh ideas and strategies for adding engaging games and game elements to your eLearning.

What else should you know about creating games and interactive scenarios? Lectora® Inspire 17 now has BranchTrack integration! This makes it easy to create scenario-based exercises and add them to Lectora courses. Find out more in the short video tutorial.And since this is a Trending Topics post, check out these other articles and resources relating to gamification and interactive learning:

Have your own example of gamification? Share it in the Trivantis Community or submit a lightning talk, presentation, or hands-on workshop speaker proposal for the 2017 Lectora User Conference.