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Game-based learning may take various forms—purposeful play in the classroom, game-like approaches to curriculum design, even school-sponsored esports competitions. Whatever it looks like on the surface, introducing games to the educational arena has the power to create deep connections to the classroom and forge learning habits that endure throughout one's life.

Educators can use gamification to keep students engaged in an increasingly digital education landscape.

What makes learners tick? What drives them to succeed? How can you use their motivation to improve online training engagement? Let’s review 8 psychological principles that lay the foundation for successful gamification strategies.

Gamification can clarify not just success and failure but the nuance of student performance in every step of the learning process.

A gamification approach allows a new employee to explore a day-in-the-life of a new role during their new hire orientation. Discover how the using octalysis framework to trigger learner's different motivations can help.

Teachers can use already existing activities and gamify them in college classes. Gamification in class can make learning more fun.

Some professors are using innovative strategies as they are battling student distraction and trying to increase engagement.

An Austrian researcher argues that gamification still holds the potential to transform workplace training and education.

"When you think of corporate training, the term “fun” probably doesn’t come to mind. But with gamification, even the most mundane learning experience becomes more engaging. And the benefits don’t stop there."

When teachers used educational games in the classroom, students raised test scores by more than half a letter grade in only three weeks.

Gamified teaching is all about incorporating the educational power of games into instructional practice. Generally speaking, games, given their built-in mechanics which draw on incentivization and reward system, tend to drive motivation and motivation drives engagement. Using games with your students will not only enhance their motivation and increase their participation but will also boost their overall learning. 

Gamification offers many benefits for teachers and students alike--here's how to integrate these tools into your instruction

Being a great Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master has a lot of parallels to being a great teacher. That's why the role-playing game can be an effective teaching tool in the classroom.

"There have been many misconceptions about whether gamification in eLearning is still as useful as before, or maybe it's dead. These misconceptions have been making waves in eLearning and hindering some organizations from using gamification as their learning strategy."

"Gamification is a massive growth tool for industries of all different types, mimicking game-based systems and interfaces in non-game experiences in hopes of using the massive financial success of the gaming industry to their own advantage. This has driven the advent and rapid evolution of game-based learning systems in the educational sector."

Getting students onboard with using video games for learning is easy, and direct play isn't necessarily required to reap benefits.

Talk of gamification has been high amongst the learning & development industry. Is there a difference between gamification and game-based learning?

"Many young students grew up with a joystick in their hands, so Texas A&M University has developed a sophisticated video game aimed to make calculus class a little less daunting."