A blog about something that has come to an end may seem a strange way to start off the New Year, but we’d rather consider this ending for Our Gamified World a beginning. This week we round out our Level 1 episodes by looking back on our experiences making the show in 2016. We reflect on…
Tag: eLearning
Building Habits; Killing Dragons – Episode 6
‘What did you get up to on the weekend?’ ‘Dragged myself into work. You?’ ‘Killed a dragon.’ We highlighted way back in Episode 1 that the crisis (or crises) of engagement in education, politics, and so many other industry contexts is pervasive. In an attention and time poor society, people don’t need to hunt for…
Gamify with AI – Episode 5 Follow-up
The chatbots have landed!! Would you bother talking to someone when you can just converse with your phone? Since we filmed Episode 5 on the gamification of language-learning, the massively popular app Duolingo has released its new chatbot feature. Powered by artificial intelligence, this feature provides a range of ‘virtual language tutors’ for users to…
Structuring Engagement via Gamification – Episode 3
Ever wanted to be a hero? And did you picture yourself being one on YouTube? Maybe – many people do – but probably not in the same way that you now can be… Not all gamification is well received. YouTube’s recent decision to gamify the ways in which people interact with user generated content has…
Road Trip! Taking OGW to the World – Episode 2 Follow-up
If you build it, will they come? We’ve been thinking a lot about content creation and engagement this week. This is part and parcel of our day-to-day jobs of course, but we also had the good fortune (and not only to leave Melbourne’s miserable skies) to travel to Sydney on 21 September to present at…
Gamifying Food Regulation for Students – Episode 2
Introducing each other by interviewing each other. This may sound like a somewhat unconventional strategy for co-hosts to start a new web series off with, but reflecting one of those unforgettable lines from the 1960s: ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time.’ Of course, we’ve done the usual thing by providing some brief…