
This course builds knowledge of game mechanics and teaches you to apply a gamified approach to learning challenges through playing, analyzing games, and deliberate practice via boss battles and workouts.
Explore how game mechanics like randomization, badging, competition, cooperation, role play, and simulation drive motivation, risk, and reward to enhance learning design.
A gamification skeptic speaks and guides you to evaluate learning technologies by aligning learning and gaming objectives with learner needs, mechanics, and meaningful feedback.
Explore design thinking through small, actionable learning mechanics, practice with games and prototyping, and embrace failure to drive learning, change, and performance.
Explore how role play and simulation differ, their positive and negative impacts, and apply them to safe, low-cost prototyping in learning design.
Ready to change the game?
If you've missed one of our popular gamification classes at Stanford, here's your chance to learn about gamification for training & learning. In this new course, you'll learn how to analyze popular games for the elements that make them work, make them fun, and make them perfect for your learning challenges.
In this highly interactive workshop, you'll play, design, and test more than 10 unique game mechanics – giving you an insider's view into how to incorporate them into your next learning challenge.
You'll also have the opportunity to apply your learning to up to 5 distinct learning challenges that you're facing now, giving you a jumpstart on applying your learning in the real world.
We also believe that fun is a key driver for learning – so we'll have a lot of it along the way. This isn't a boring "death by PowerPoint" course. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and get gaming.
Finally, we'll share success stories (and a couple failures) about how we've specifically incorporated games into our practice at some of the world's most recognized brands.