{"id":390,"date":"2018-08-02T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fs-s-wpmu-02.facsci.ualberta.ca\/scilift\/?p=390"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:49:47","slug":"gamification-in-education-4-ways-to-bring-games-to-your-classroom-by-suzanne-holloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/scilift\/2018\/08\/02\/gamification-in-education-4-ways-to-bring-games-to-your-classroom-by-suzanne-holloway\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification in Education: 4 Ways to Bring Games to Your Classroom by Suzanne Holloway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is gamification?<\/h2>\n

Gamification<\/strong>\u00a0is the use of game design and mechanics to enhance non-game contexts by increasing participation, engagement, loyalty and competition. These methods can include points, leaderboards, direct competitions and stickers or badges, and can be found in industries as varied as personal healthcare, retail\u2014and, of course, education.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen gamification already in a variety of settings: completing a punch card to win a free sandwich, receiving a badge for being the first of friends to check in at a particular restaurant, or expanding our profiles on LinkedIn to bring the \u201ccompletion bar\u201d up to 100%. Gamification has even worked its way into the automotive industry with the innovative dashboard of the Ford Fusion hybrid. A high-resolution display features a rendering of vine-like leaves. Waste gas, and your vines wither. Conserve, and they blossom. The idea is to encourage brand loyalty, so how will gamification impact the education sector?<\/p>\n

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\nLet the games begin. Learn how leading professors from Purdue, Stanford and more use gamification and role-playing to ramp up engagement in their classrooms in our free guide, The Top Tactics for Creating a More Engaged Classroom \u276f \u276f \u276f<\/div>\n

Gamification in education<\/h2>\n

Games, in any form, increase motivation through engagement. Nowhere else is this more important than education. Nothing demonstrates a general lack of student motivation quite like the striking high school dropout rates: approximately 1.2 million students fail to graduate each year (All4Ed, 2010). At the college level, a Harvard Graduate School of Education study\u00a0\u201cPathways to Prosperity\u201d<\/a>\u00a0reports that just 56% of students complete four-year degrees within six years. It\u2019s argued that this is due to current systemic flaws in the way we teach; schools are behind the times. Watch a single lecture on innovation trends in education, and the presenter likely notes the striking similarities of a modern-day classroom and one of centuries past. It\u2019s been proven that gamifying other services has resulted in retention and incentive. For example, website builder\u00a0DevHub<\/a>\u00a0saw the remarkable increase of users who finished their sites shoot from 10 percent to 80 percent. So, in theory, it should work for schools as well.<\/p>\n

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