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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.
@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).
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?
@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....
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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!
@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.
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