How Educational Games Motivate Learners -
In the realm of learning, incorporating gaming is a fantastic way to help learners grasp difficult concepts, and also encourage them to master complex subjects. Through the addition of a feeling of competition or achievement students will feel compelled to achieve milestones in order to reap the rewards.
Gamification is a widely used tool in the field of education. Gamification, which is using game elements, even when they are not game-related can help students engage in otherwise routine tasks. In the first decade of 2000, the gamification trend has exploded, becoming a dominant approach.
Let's look at how games that are educational can promote motivation and how to incorporate them into the WordPress course.
Educational games and their role
The short version is that a great game is able to hit that perfect place between dull and unattainable.
Gamification Solutions
Achievements
17 supported achievement triggers around WordPress and can reward users of your site. Registration, login, clicking a post, and adding comments can all result in a badge. This is an excellent way to take learning out of your course into the other sections of your site for an immersive learning experience.
Do you want to know how? Take a look at our replay webinar to view Achievements in action: Achievements & Gamification using and WordPress
GamiPress
GamiPress can reward learners with a variety of points, awards as well as badges, ranks and points for their contributions. Points can be awarded for interacting with lessons and completing activities. Achievements are awarded to users when fulfilling a prerequisite, such as posting in a forum for passing a quiz. The ranks allow users to rise in status, such as the highest scores in learning games or earning elite badges.
A few additional features include:
- Customize how you use points, achievements, and ranks
- To add or subtract points an individual's account without micro-managing
- The features can be locked or hidden if they meet certain point criteria
- Include time limiters to give an element of urgency to finish a task before the next lesson
Easy to use but extremely powerful, GamiPress has a wealth of gaming features that have the potential for engaging learners. Installation is simple too, with an easy-to-follow plugin installation.
myCred
myCred helps reward learners through points and badges. Individual badges are awarded to learners in accordance with the requirements and objectives of your courses. Points may be given or removed from groups to help drive participants to finish their course.
myCred offers an easy main menu and a simplified layout of the badge pages, as well as options for social media sharing of badges you've earned. There are also " treasure" features that feature attractive images for the various ranks and badges. The myCred plugin is available to integrate wherever you want to add some games to your classes. The plugin is free, and includes assistance and one year of upgrades.
Encourage Learning through Gamification, and
Gaming-related applications to online education are almost infinite. They will increase as more technologies become accessible to a wider range of instructors.
Are you ready to see how to incorporate educational games into your next course? Check out our demonstration and build an entire course with Achievements to see the possibilities this tool can provide for you.