January | 2016 | Games in ED

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Using Gamification to Attract Online Learners

When planning online learning courses, one of the biggest issues to overcome is engaging students enough that after signing up, they remain motivated enough to keep coming back to the course. The amount of effort required to sign up to online courses is nearly minimal nowadays, thanks to resources such as Coursera, which offer university-level content…

Expanding Educational Horizons with New Tech and Gamification

Research from the Learning and Digital Media departments at New York University presents some interesting discussions about the role of games in future learning and probes the evolving presence of technology in schools and the changing characteristics of students. In the modern technological world, teaching methods have had to change dramatically. Computers are now commonplace in classrooms and instead…