Welcome to the Gamification Lab
If you are interested in Gamification there is an online course by prof. Kevin Werbach at University of Pennsylvania. The course is free (you’ll need to register to Coursera) and pay only if you want to receive a certificate after Read More …
Gabe Zichermann is one of the leading voices in the gamification context. Zichermann approaches gamification as a marketing tool, a strategy to create affiliation with customers and grow a business. In other words, not really a ‘purely academic’ approach, but Read More …
… and what is Penn University suggesting for Gamification to be? Kevin Werbach is the name of they guy, who does an online courses on Gamification. He’ll have a new course in April. Here is the link:
A Workshop about the Potential and Implications of Gamification (Incubator at Leuphana University, Art & Civic Media Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures) Aims of the Workshop This call is for an initial gathering of scholars, practitioners and creatives to Read More …
The next reading group session on Gamification at Leuphana’s Inkubator will be about Jane McGonigal’s text Reality is Broken. In this TED talk she explained how gaming can save the world… Jane McGonigal TED talk …or at least make it a Read More …
Saving lives with gaming technology Although this CNN video does not directly mention the term ‘gamification’, it gives an idea of the different ways in which gaming technologies and game design are now used for non-gaming purposes. In this specific Read More …