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    Game elements like badges, roles, and points can be used to gamify educational content. Badges recognize skills and behaviors not traditionally assessed, such as posting early or being helpful. Roles allow students to take on perspectives different from their own, like acting as a doctor or patient. A points system builds up points for correct answers rather than deducting them for mistakes. Other elements include narratives that students progress through, challenges that increase in difficulty over time, student choice and control, levels to represent achievements, and failure cycles that allow trying again without major penalties.

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    Game elements like badges, roles, and points can be used to gamify educational content. Badges recognize skills and behaviors not traditionally assessed, such as posting early or being helpful. Roles allow students to take on perspectives different from their own, like acting as a doctor or patient. A points system builds up points for correct answers rather than deducting them for mistakes. Other elements include narratives that students progress through, challenges that increase in difficulty over time, student choice and control, levels to represent achievements, and failure cycles that allow trying again without major penalties.

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    Game elements like badges, roles, and points can be used to gamify educational content. Badges recognize skills and behaviors not traditionally assessed, such as posting early or being helpful. Roles allow students to take on perspectives different from their own, like acting as a doctor or patient. A points system builds up points for correct answers rather than deducting them for mistakes. Other elements include narratives that students progress through, challenges that increase in difficulty over time, student choice and control, levels to represent achievements, and failure cycles that allow trying again without major penalties.

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    Game elements like badges, roles, and points can be used to gamify educational content. Badges recognize skills and behaviors not traditionally assessed, such as posting early or being helpful. Roles allow students to take on perspectives different from their own, like acting as a doctor or patient. A points system builds up points for correct answers rather than deducting them for mistakes. Other elements include narratives that students progress through, challenges that increase in difficulty over time, student choice and control, levels to represent achievements, and failure cycles that allow trying again without major penalties.

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    Game elements and examples of practical application

    Game element Example

    Badges Badges are usually used to recognize skills, behaviors that aren’t traditionally
    assessed. For example, you could have a surprise early bird badge that’s given out
    to the first person who posts to the discussion forum. Or a badge for the most
    helpful participant. In both cases they’re kind of going above and beyond the
    expected norm and students aren’t really assessed on posting early, or being
    helpful.

    Roles/Role If you have a course theme or narrative, or even if you don’t, you could ask the
    Playing participants to take on roles different from what they’re used to. For example, you
    could have a group of people and they each act out, or pretend to be someone
    they’re not. One person could be a doctor, the other a nurse, and the third would
    be a patient. It’s really about getting them thinking outside their usual perspective.

    Points This is kind of obvious, but a lot of times in gamified environments you start at zero
    points and build your way up. So the players are starting low and earning points,
    not starting at 100, and having points taken away for mistakes. It’s a small, but
    important distinction. Also you might see a course where you can potentially earn
    over a 100 points. This is done so students can complete extra work to make up for
    the points they lost. I explain it like this “if you’re paid hourly, and you miss work,
    you don’t get paid, but if you work overtime, you can make up that money lost.”
    It’s overly simplified, but similar enough.

    Story/Narrative A course could have a narrative or a story that all participants progress through.
    This could be used in conjunction with other elements like badges and role playing.
    The course I’m studying uses a space mission theme and all the students are
    astronauts and earn space-themed badges as they progress through the course.

    Curiosity Some gamification tries to appeal to our natural sense of curiosity. So by allowing
    participants to explore, try new things, and learn for the sake of learning you are
    tapping into that natural curiosity we all have.
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    Game Element Example

    Challenge When including elements of challenge you usually want to scaffold their learning so
    that the difficulty matches their skill level. As they progress, learn, and gain new skills
    the difficulty increases appropriately. It’s commonly referred to as “flow.”

    Control Game players usually have a great deal of control over the outcome of the game. They
    are able to make decisions and view the results pretty rapidly. By offering students
    the chance to have some control over their learning you are tapping into their internal
    motivation. An example might be to give them 3-4 project options and they get to
    choose one to complete.

    Levels Levels represent reaching a certain milestone or achievement. Many times players are
    able to quickly ‘level up’ at the beginning of the game, but as they progress it
    becomes harder and harder to level up. This goes along with challenge and flow. It’s a
    good idea to have some low hanging fruit to reward participants for early
    achievements. This makes them feel good and want to progress.

    Feedback Allow participants to quickly see the results of their decisions. They know rather
    cycles quickly if they made the correct, or incorrect choice. This allows them to modify their
    behavior on the next go around. If you think about Angry Birds, you shoot the birds at
    the pigs, and right away you know if you killed any or not. If you didn’t kill any you can
    change your angle the next time.

    Freedom to fail Many times in games failure isn’t a devastating event because you know you can just
    try again the next time. Going back to Angry Birds, if your shot placement wasn’t
    effective, it’s ok, you can just try again. There isn’t a large negative penalty for
    experimenting with new shot angles, if it doesn’t work, oh well, try again next time.

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