Ever felt your learners should be more engaged?

Gamification is an approach that builds on the psychology of human engagement and capitalizes on the exciting, motivating and engaging strategies and design ideas from games.

Applied in the educational context, it transforms attitudes towards learning. It creates an immersive, entertaining experience. Such a hands-on approach helps students to connect with their learning and improves concentration, determination to succeed or overall knowledge retention.

This online workshop led by Rob Alvarez and Bernardo Letayf is an entry-intermediate level training for learning professionals who have none or limited experience with Gamification.

The training focuses on five steps every educator can take to gamify the student learning experience. These five steps have derived from interactions with over 100 experts through Rob Alvarez’s Professor Game Podcast as well as two decades of experience with interactive learning materials at IE Business School in Madrid.

The online training consists of six live sessions. In between the live sessions, participants will work asynchronously (individually, as well as in peer groups) on an individual project based on their specific challenges.

Throughout the training participants will:

• explore gamification as a way to create a learner experience
• get hands-on experience with using gamification to design a course/lesson, address a workplace challenge
• deliver a prototype of a gamified course/lesson/workplace process
• receive individual as well as peer feedback to apply the newly gained insights in practice

TARGET GROUP

This online workshop is designed for learning professionals as well as programme directors and designers, who have none to limited experience with gamification and who are interested in incorporating new methods to increase student’s engagement and performance levels.

COURSE TIMELINE

October 26; 15:00-16:00 CEST: Introductory session
October 31; 15:00-17:00 CET: Live session 1
November 3; 12:00 CET: Assignment 1
November 6; Peer feedback 1
November 7; 15:00-17:00 CET: Live session 2
November 14; 15:00-17:00 CET: Live session 3
November 17; 12:00 CET: Assignment 2
November 20; Peer feedback 2
November 21; 15:00-17:00 CET Live session 4
November 30; 15:00-17:00 CET Feedback and closing

DIGITAL BADGES

After completing all assignments, course participants will receive a digital badge*.

Criteria for receiving a badge:

• 80% attendance of live sessions
• Submitting two individual assignments (Friday November 3 & Friday November 17)
• Submitting two filled-in peer feedback forms (Monday November 6 & Monday November 20)

The submission platform for all assignments including peer feedback is Slack.

*Digital open badges are a tool to recognise learning and training and to allow recipients to showcase their skills and achievements. Metadata are embedded in their image to allow for quick verification of the credentials. The badges are linked to a verified webpage that contains information about who earned the badge, how it was earned, who is the issuer, what skills the badge holder gained or any additional evidence linked to the training.

ZOOM

This workshop will be run using Zoom. To ensure the best Zoom experience, we recommend that you install the latest version of Zoom Client for Meetings. If you are not familiar with Zoom, you can test the tool via this weblink.