A few days ago I was having a discussion about incompetence. It made me think and wonder if incompetence is really something we do on purpose. For a lot of people it is also about they don’t know what they don’t know and hence calling them incompetent seems largely unfair. In learning and in psychology,…
On my recent speaking schedule, I met a lot of business leaders in HR and learning. Because I spoke about the topic of gamification trends and how to implement these solutions. Invariably in conversations afterwards, you find out how people are finding gamification and what they are doing with it. In HR circles the view…
When we look at the reasons for implementing gamification in learning, the most frequently quoted reasons are to increase recall and retention of the necessary knowledge about a topic. In order to benefit best from gamification, we need to ask if a learner has enough background or base knowledge to understand how something works. If…
In the upcoming Gamification Europe conference and awards, I asked to include a category of awards to stimulate projects for the greater good of our industry and to encourage more representation of people of all ages, ability, races, gender etc. For me, this has been the very reason why I entered the industry in 2012 because…
One of the things I have been mentioning a lot lately whilst speaking at HR and learning related conferences is that gamification and game design is as much about how you want people to feel while interacting with you as well as the process. I quote one of my inspirations Jane McGonigal in my slides,…