Grwo

Grwo

Get rewarded for learning!

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Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
Should've had this when I was in school!
Britt Ana Veal
Please offer this at HBCUs
Robert Keus
@Pennies4school We have 7500+ educational institutes in our database. Can you give us the full name of your university + state so we can add it when it's not available ?
Robert Keus
I posted a wrong comment here. Comment was for @acondurache
Britt Ana Veal
@Pennies4school @robertkeus looks like you've covered all the schools in my state. App looks great. Awesome work!
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
@robertkeus maybe you can answer some Q's?
Robert Keus
@bramk Sure. I am available for Q's right now!
andrew
intrisic motivataion would be what drives learning .. not sure how effective a gamified point system would be especially with monetary reward gains.. could probably get abused?
Robert Keus
@acondurache Great questions. Of course we hope that students are motivated intrinsically! However, there’s a great deal of research on the use of incentives in education. This research suggests that incentives actually /do/ work to encourage positive behaviours. For example, take a look at the studies referenced in this news article: http://news.heartland.org/newspa.... We also are aware that cheating is possible. However, we’ve implemented a number of tools to reduce cheating, from an honor code to random validation requests. Again, research suggests that even having just an honor code reduces cheating. Again, here’s an article that references some of the research we’ve done: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/da.... Thanks for the feedback!
Jorik
Funny I just had a conversation on gamified learning today. We both agreed that it should be an intrinsic motivation and so gamification won't help. How do you keep the rewards relevant? I.e. not like the 'do this and win an iPad' campaigns.
Robert Keus
@thisisjorik good question. We offer three types of rewards; Experiences (Trips, Cooking workshops, etc.), Grwo Your Network (meeting with iconic leaders) and Product Rewards (Gift Cards, Shoes, Books, etc.). The Experiences and Grwo Your Network are really important rewardcategories for our platform. These rewards are unique and are an added value for students. For example we offer a meet and greet with Richard Belluzzo (former COO Microsoft) or a four day trip to Baja (Mexico).
Joe Kerns
very cool idea - would love to hear the background story, user stories etc. very much so in line with the types of things we are thinking about with @roundview!
Robert Keus
@josephkerns Thanks! We started more than a year ago with the concept/idea. In april we launched a beta version on Clemson University, San Diego State University and Texas Tech University to test the platform. We bundled all this valuable feedback and improved the product. We opened up the platform for all universities two months ago. Currently we are busy with the Android version (which will be released in the coming weeks). We offer three types of rewards; Experiences (Trips, Cooking workshops, etc.), Grwo Your Network (meeting with iconic leaders) and Product Rewards (Gift Cards, Shoes, Books, etc.). Last month we rewarded one of our users with a trip to TomorrowWorld Festival. Hope this will answered your questions.
Ivan Braun
What do you think about the Punished by Rewards book? http://www.amazon.com/Punished-R... It's in my kindle for half year. Should I read it? :)
Robert Keus
@visualpharm I honestly don't know the book. I will ask my team. TBC.
Robert Keus
@visualpharm One of the guys from our team says: "Cool book, and it was cited in some of our initial research.."
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