Apart from the 2D modes, there are also game show modes where the students have to answer as many questions correctly as they can and to earn points towards the tasks in each specific mode. Gimkit is ...

It’s infamous how much children play and enjoy video games. Parents everywhere despair of dragging their kids away from games in order to get them to do something or even just interact with them. This ...

Three years ago I flipped my high school math classes, but wasn’t satisfied. Having heard about mastery-based learning, I wanted to move my classes in that direction. But I could not figure out how to ...

It’s easy to knock computer games as a distraction, but a growing number of educators are seeing the potential in their ability to keep students engaged. The result is a gamification of learning that ...

The concept of gamification is increasingly gaining popularity - tourists frequently traveling overseas earn frequent flier points from their preferred airline; customers purchasing apparel from their ...

Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, a pair of Ph.D. candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scrawled ...

Kaplan University's School of Information Technology is expanding its gamification and badging efforts following positive results from a recently conducted pilot program. The initial pilot project ...

When students are engaged and inspired, they excel academically. Regrettably, schools all around the country are facing a student motivation and engagement crisis of epic proportions. Student ...

Games in the classroom have moved far beyond the pixelated Oregon Trail of yesteryear. Today’s classrooms are capitalizing on modern games, virtual reality, and multimedia content to engage with ...

It’s well known that surveillance effects how we behave. A recent study on the issue showed that traffic to Wikipedia articles on controversial subjects dropped off significantly after Edward Snowden ...

Gamification is one of the biggest in education trends right now in education. According to ISTE, “Gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a game” ...