The Secret to Effective e-Learning Games Serious games do more than just offer a few badges for finishing a quiz here and there. An effective serious game creates a learning environment where learning objectives are translated into important behaviors, where the context is meaningful to the learner and decisions are consequential. Serious games go a long way toward creating a unique, effective learning experience. Learning expert Clark Quinn reminds us in his book, Engaging Learning that “We are not, cannot be, about designing content. A fundamental perspective I want you to take away is that we are designing experiences.” As Quinn says, “You have to start thinking about putting the learners into a context where they have to make decisions, understand why those decisions are important, want to make those decisions, and know that there are consequences of those decisions.” Take a look at these 5 essential elements found in effective e-Learning games
9 Techniques For Online Educators To Gamify Their Digital Classrooms Involve and motivate your students into the process of online learning with the help of gamification. Check what gamification is, and what gamification techniques you can use as online educator to make your digital classroom more interesting for your online students. Check the following 9 techniques that will help you gamify your digital classroom. Every educator's worst nightmare is his/her inability to motivate students and make them interested in the process of studying itself.Being educators, we perfectly understand the importance of techniques we use in a classroom, and the consequences these techniques may bring as a result. Gamification – giving some game elements to the process of study in order to motivate students and drive their learning behaviors. Teachers have been using different elements of gamification in their traditional classrooms for a long time already, even if they do not know what the exact term for such a phenomenon is.