Gamification Design
Why Gamification?
Games have become the new normal. The gaming industry is already more
powerful than other ways of entertainment like music or movies. An
average young person will spend more than 10,000 hours gaming by the age
of 21 - somewhat the time that it takes us to master any kind of skill-
and yet, there's a huge engagement crisis in many other areas. 70% of
US full-time employees are not motivated by what they are doing, kids
spend way more time engaged with video games than they do with books,
the average attention span in 2012 was less than 10 seconds and it's
decreasing every year...
It seems like only games are truly understanding how human motivation
really works. But how is that possible? Why are we glued to games? Can
we design that kind of gameful experiences in non-game contexts to make
them more engaging?
And the most important question: How to do so?
Course Structure
Week 1 (17/03/2014) Games. Game Design. Gamefulness. Gamification
Week 2 (31/03/2014) Psychology and Gamification: Why are games and gamification so engaging?
Week 3 (07/04/2014)The different types of Gamification
Week 4 (14/04/2014) Defining gamified experiences: Things to know before we start
Week 5 (21/04/2014) Creating gamified experiences: The first steps of the design process
Week 6 (28/04/2014) Designing gamified experiences: Storytelling, mechanics, aesthetics and much more
Week 7 (05/05/2014) Going further than the basics
Learning Outcomes
In this course you'll learn the basics of Gamification with a highly
practical approach. We'll especially focus on how to design gamified
experiences in real life and students will be able to gain knowledge in
areas such as: game design, psychology, management, or education.
Our main goal will be to understand and master the principles of
gamification to design experiences that make things more fun and
engaging.
Who is this course for?
Do you want your team to perfom better? Are you looking for ways to
fully engage happy customers? Do you want to see kids learning while
playing? Or are you just looking forward to seeing a better world?
Gamification can be used in many areas and almost any task can be fun
and engaging so this course could be great for people like: teachers,
educators, managers, C-level executives, health and fitness
professionals, psychologists or researchers. So...
Whether you ever asked yourself one of these questions or you just
want to know how to make things more fun and engaging, this course is
for you!
Prior Knowledge
This is a level 1 course and all you need to bring in the class is a
playful attitude! Anyway, having some prior knowledge is always great,
so if you already want to start this epic adventure, here are 3 ways you
can do so:
Assessments and Certification
This MOOC will be based on creative assignments where we’ll try you
to learn by doing and after successfully completing those assignments,
students will receive their statement certificates of accomplishment if
their overall score is higher than 7. Besides, everyone will receive an
statement of participation.
Workload
This course will feature weekly videos and creative assignments so
you’ll have to spend around 3-4 hours per week, and if you want to know
more, we’ll provide you with reading references and plenty of insightful
videos, blogs and resources. In addition, there will be live hangouts
and local meetups so the workload is actually up to you.
Live G+ Hangouts & Local Meetups
We plan to do Live Hangouts with the best students of the week, and local meetups with the best communities of the course.
Live Hangouts
Every week, we’ll ask all the students to discuss about some interesting
topics and we'll feature the most insightful ones on a weekly hangout.
More information coming soon.
Local Meetups
We’ll foster local communities within the course and we’ll try to
organise meetups with the biggest and most active ones from all over the
world. To do so, we’ll select 3 organisers that voluntarily apply for
that position in the forums and then try to coordinate a meetup with the
teachers during the course or afterwards. Stay tuned for more exciting
news!
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Gamification Design Free Course
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