Transform Learning with Gamification

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In this day and age, many of us are of the view that ‘work would be better if it was more fun’. However, how does this work in reality? When you look for methods to drive employee motivation and engagement, gamification may just be the answer that you are looking for. Today, the benefits of gamification in learning are no longer underestimated. It enhances learner engagement and makes corporate training much more dynamic in nature. Since it helps in building an effective learning system, gamification is something that is welcomed by almost every learner today.

What works in favour of gamification is also our single biggest motivation – the desire to win! When it is applied to learning, it assists learners in developing skills with the help of an applied and practical hands-on approach. In fact, there are many compelling benefits which ‘gamification of learning’ brings along to transform learning for the better. Here is a more detailed look:

1. Makes Learning Fun and Interactive

Irrespective of the subject matter or your audience, gamification of learning helps create content that is educational, exciting, and entertaining. You may think that it turns work into games; however, that is not the case. Everyone has an innate drive to compete, learn, and outperform not only others but themselves. Gamification plays on the learner’s psychology to drive human engagement.

Gamification also offers learners a chance to compete with each other for rewards. These rewards can prove to be supremely gratifying for the learners. Giving out virtual badges could positively reinforce learners to come back for more content.

Thanks to the interactivity it provides, gamification makes learning exciting and informative at the same time. Also, when role-play and competitive elements are set up in the right manner, they work to add an immersive angle and make learning fun. All in all, learners always tend to engage with a learning program that is more enjoyable.

• Create an Addiction to Learning

What would you define as the most important objective of learning? The answer will most certainly be – instilling fresh knowledge in your learners. But, if that knowledge is not retained, will it be useful for them?

A surprising benefit of ‘gamification of learning’ is the natural high it provides to learners through the process of levelling-up. This ‘high’ helps the learner retain the newly learnt information in a much better manner.

• Provides Real-Time Feedback

Imagine a situation where we self-review the things that we do on a regular basis but only once every year. Will this be beneficial to us? Will this help us improve?

The ‘gamification of learning’ allows learners to work towards measurable, meaningful, and real-time targets and allows them to receive upper-level feedback when they achieve those targets. It is a given fact that it is unreasonable to expect too many improvements if one is not aware of the areas they need to do better. With the help of gamification, learners are told what they should know in order to improve on a more regular basis.

• Increased Engagement with Content

Gamification in eLearning provides learners with the chance to engage with the content in an informal and effective learning environment. If learners feel excited to learn, they’ll consume and retain the information in a better manner.

• Promoting Social Interaction and Competition

Gamification techniques help leverage the natural desire of an individual for socialising. It can be used to promote social interaction for a more effective way of learning. Publishing a leader board facilitates a sense of community within the organisation and it allows employees to gauge how they are performing among their peers, encouraging healthy competition.

Badges are a visual representation of achievements which have been earned as well as collected in a gamified activity. They increase a learner’s motivation and sense of competence. When learners earn badges through badge-based learning pathways, it increases the social interaction between them.

We all know that competition motivates a lot of people and gamification uses this very approach. Today, the possibilities of incorporating gamified elements into a corporate learning program are huge. Gamification not only increases a learner’s awareness and engagement but his/her productivity as well. This, in turn, enhances the overall performance of your organisation.

There are many who still feel that gamification does not necessarily result in a learning outcome. It is high time that such a notion is changed, and gamification is utilised as an engaging learning strategy.