July 5

“Building a Game Plan”

 

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By Paul Keyworth

Following on from my last article on game-based learning, below is a link to a useful handout from Heidi Jung and Cheryl Bosarge’s presentation on “Gamification” at last month’s Brightspace Fusion 2015 Global eLearning Conference. They propose a five-step plan for gamifying your courses within a learner management system such as D2L.

Here is the link:

Building a Game Plan

Jung and Bosarge are gamification designers at Southern Illinois University’s Center for Teaching Excellence.