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This article shares some of the ways that gamification methods help engage your online students more effectively and how these can help create a better online community.

#Gamification taps into something that’s so innately human, it makes sense that other aspects of our lives will start to get the gamification treatment – do you agree?

Jane McGonigal thinks that not enough hours are spent gaming. In her TED Talk, “Gaming Can Make a Better World”, she highlights how most of the public agrees: 63% of American adults said that making everyday activities more like a game would make them more fun and rewarding.

Gamification is no longer a novelty: it’s expected by modern employees and community members.

Part of the success for building and engaging the Experts Exchange community was:

1) User-Generated Ratings

2) Points, Rewards & Leaderboards

3) Strategy

Share your thoughts.

#Gamification taps into something that’s so innately human, it makes sense that other aspects of our lives will start to get the gamification treatment – do you agree?

Jane McGonigal thinks that not enough hours are spent gaming. In her TED Talk, “Gaming Can Make a Better World”, she highlights how most of the public agrees: 63% of American adults said that making everyday activities more like a game would make them more fun and rewarding.

Gamification is no longer a novelty: it’s expected by modern employees and community members.

Part of the success for building and engaging the Experts Exchange community was:

1) User-Generated Ratings

2) Points, Rewards & Leaderboards

3) Strategy

Share your thoughts.