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Involve and motivate your students into the process of online learning with the help of gamification. Check what gamification is, and what gamification techniques you can use as online educator to make your digital classroom more interesting for your online students. Check the following 9 techniques that will help you gamify your digital classroom. 
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In the second installment of the blog series on gamifying your learning, Karl Kapp outlines best practices in gamification implementations.
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Using games to promote learning isn't a new idea. But the widespread use of game-based adaptive learning systems, the explosion of mobile learning applications, and the growing use of game-based strategies makes gamification one of the most important education trends of this decade.
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For more than a decade, James Paul Gee has been writing about the potential power of games and game mechanics to change the way we learn, to create new “deep”... more »
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
"Challenges should be used in gamification to initially engage learners to start learning a task and to encourage learners who are reluctant to start to learn content. Often learners who are reluctant to learn content can be persuaded to begin the process by being challenged. This requires a careful balance as, in cases where a learner is overwhelmed with the content or feels that it is too difficult to even begin to learn, other methods need to be employed to engage the learner. These methods could include the use of story or the employing of spaced practice or the development of a sense of mystery."
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Michelle Gilstrap's curator insight,
January 31, 2014 1:45 PM
Have you wanted to create an avatar? This is a neat free online avatar creator.
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I was having a discussion recently with someone about trends in education, and the topic of augmented reality came up.
Begoña Iturgaitz's curator insight,
December 10, 2013 6:47 AM
Gure #B08Leioa- n egindako prestakuntzaren osagarri........ http://b08leioa.com/jardunaldi-digitalak-2013/
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ARIS is a open-source tool for creating mobile learning games, stories, documentaries, place-based learning activities, citizen science and citizen journalism activities.
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
December 27, 2013 12:20 PM
This article was my introduction to ARIS open-source tool for creating mobile learning games.
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
From monsters to talking avatars, a range of avatar makers to choose from.
Judih Weinstein Haggai's curator insight,
March 17, 2014 2:04 AM
This is a great page of avatar makers! 
Sandra Carswell's curator insight,
March 18, 2014 12:04 AM
Always looking for good avatar creators for students to use on their edmodo accounts. 
Profesor Mills's comment,
March 20, 2014 6:33 PM
Most of these link to advertisements for commercial brands or websites that no longer exist
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Lori Wilk's curator insight,
December 27, 2013 12:22 PM
Will gamification be part of your online educational programs?
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In the future, there will be no barrier between your thoughts, your imagination, and the world that you see.
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Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulation — but the real question is if we want to know...
Carlos Fosca's curator insight,
November 17, 2013 9:53 AM
..."some philosophers have long argued that we’re actually more likely to be artificial intelligences trapped in a fake universe than we are organic minds in the “real” one". |
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In its simplest sense, gamification is showing users how to do something and rewarding them for doing it right or figuring out the problem.
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Karl Kapp addresses the question: How do you begin to think about using game-elements and game-thinking to create instruction that is engaging?
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niftyjock's curator insight,
February 13, 2014 10:59 PM
"Serious games, pervasive games, alternate reality games, or playful design". What is gamification exactly?
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Guidelines for an effective design of serious games
Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
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niftyjock's curator insight,
February 10, 2014 1:46 AM
serious games and fun games. aren't they the same thing?
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niftyjock's curator insight,
February 5, 2014 4:12 PM
I always find it hard to define what a game is so I think of it like this - if it looks like a game then that's what it is. (if it quacks like a duck it's a duck)
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You know you have become an eLearning nerd when watching a movie all you think about is eLearning gamification and instructional design.
Sebastian Saldarriaga's curator insight,
March 14, 2020 11:35 PM
Regardless of whether you are designing eLearning deliverables for adult learners or for young students, gamification in eLearning can help to make the overall eLearning experience much more effective. If learners are having fun and are getting excited about learning, then they are more likely to actually acquire information. Even a subject matter that may be dull or complicated can be absorbed more easily, because learners are actually enjoying the process and are actively participating. In fact, you can even integrate gamification into your eLearning courses in such a way that learners won't even know they are acquiring new information. Knowledge absorption simply becomes a byproduct, as they are focused on achieving rewards and accomplishments within the eLearning course. This is often when real learning takes place, however, as the boundaries that often hinder the learning process are removed. For example, learners don't have to deal with the stress that can be associated with learning, because they are too busy having fun and enjoying the eLearning course.
Sebastian Saldarriaga's curator insight,
April 24, 2020 1:17 AM
The author explains that the gamification of learning is an educational approach to motivate students to learn by using video game design and game elements in learning environments. The goal is to maximize enjoyment and engagement through capturing the interest of learners and inspiring them to continue learning. Gamification, broadly defined, is the process of defining the elements which comprise games that make those games fun and motivate players to continue playing, and using those same elements in a non-game context to influence behaviour.In other words, gamification is the introduction of game elements in a non-game situation.
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
“Mobile augmented reality provides learning designers and educators with a new opportunity to start thinking more deeply about the mobile learner’s context and situation. AR technologies can take any situation, location, environment, or experience to a whole new level of meaning and understanding. AR is uniquely changing the way people learn with mobile devices.”
niftyjock's curator insight,
December 2, 2013 4:09 PM
I just love the whole idea of google glass, but I think we are still in the learning beta phase of testing and we wont reaqlly understand the uimpact it will have on learning untill innovative teachers get their hands on it. 
Gamescademy's curator insight,
December 7, 2013 10:29 AM
מציאות מועצבת רבודה - רואים שקוף רואים למידה
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Explore the world of #TheHobbit The Desolation of Smaug with A Journey Through Middle-earth, a Chrome Experiment.
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Alebaran’s NAO human interaction robot is using cloud-based language systems from Nuance to speak and understand 19 new languages.
Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight,
November 22, 2013 5:34 AM
Ne, ne, ne bodo nas nadomestili :))), so pa lahko uporabni, kajne?
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New research explains why such a seemingly simple task is so hard to do.
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
December 27, 2013 12:23 PM
Keeping up with the trends and some insights.
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Starting tonight, the Science Channel will air a six-part series called Futurescape, a slick documentary-style show hosted by James Woods about the world of tomorrow. We recently caught up with the oscar-nominated actor to learn more.
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Many of these "techniques" have been used by language teachers for a long time; however, interesting to see transposed to the online learning setting.