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One way to increase learners’ engagement in training is to implement gamification. When done right, it motivates and engages learners and makes the learning process more immersive and practical. Gamification allows the learners to practice their skills in safe-realistic situations in a virtual setting which enables the learner to understand difficult concepts with ease and fun.
Gamification is a technique that captures the elements of games into learning situations or training scenarios to provide a positive learning outcome for the learner. By weaving game mechanics such as leaderboards, points and badges, and other fun features of the games into the training modules, these gamified experiences feed into the innate sense of competition thereby motivating and encouraging the learner.
The purpose of gamification is to increase the effectiveness of training by providing a more engaging and fun learning experience. Gamification applies game elements to promote engagement and participation. These elements often include:
But the question remains, does it actually make a difference? Let’s find out.
Here are some benefits of gamification which leads to increase learners’ engagement:
To summarize, game techniques and mechanisms can be implemented in the learning process to bring positive changes in learners’ behaviors towards learning, to improve their motivation as well as to engage learners in a friendly competitive environment.
Gamification creates a gateway to enhance learning experiences for its users. Gamified features keep evolving which provides more opportunities to create much better and interactive scenarios for the learners. This powerful yet easy learning approach can be applied to various industries/sectors enabling the learner to acquire more skills and information in a fun and effective way.