Gameification: Accelerating the Learning Experience
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[Business2Community]
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Gameification represents part of a predictable sequence. Many of the greatest technological advances in business have come originally from the world of kids and their games. Here’s how the sequence flows:
- First, an innovative concept or new technology often starts out in the world of games for children. Sometimes it’s the military (or in times past, the space program) that serves as the launch point. But it’s amazing how often it’s kids’ games.
- From there it sooner or later gains the attention of the adults in the business community as they learn how to adapt and apply it to their needs.
- Finally, it creeps into the education sector.
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Five Core Elements
Based on twenty-five years of research, I’ve identified five core elements that can dramatically accelerate learning when applied together.
1. SELF-DIAGNOSTIC. In the world of gaming, the more feats you accomplish, the greater challenges the game gives you. … Why not give your business training a self-diagnostic component, like advanced video games?
2. INTERACTIVITY. …
In advanced video games you move things around and manipulate items. You interact with the information. …
3. IMMERSION. With early 3D technology (including today’s 3D movies and 3D televisions) you have to wear special glasses to make the images pop out at you. With newer technology the 3D is interspatial: instead of images popping out at you, you enter them. You become immersed in the information.
When you’re training salespeople on, say, a particular manufacturing tool they’re going to sell, why not have them see the tool in 3D and get to manipulate the tool (virtually) rather than have them read spec sheets about it?
4. COMPETITION. Humans are naturally competitive. …
5. FOCUS. When you play a game, you’re forced to focus. ..
Accelerate Learning
When you model your company’s training to include these five elements, your employees will learn more in less time and have better results. …
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