The Gamification Quest

The course was NASCAR or stock car race themed with 68 faculty members being divided into “pit crews” of 5 members. Each week (lap) presented the Pit Crews with content and “driving missions” that supported broader learning objectives.

About our Guest:

Jeff Mastromonico has been teaching, developing multimedia, and working in instructional design in the higher ed space for over 20 years. He currently is the Director of the Center for Instructional Innovation at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. He has a Masters of Education in Educational Technology from the University of South Carolina and a second-level certification in Gamification from Sententia.

Lynsey Steinberg is one of the 300 board-certified medical illustrators. Lynsey graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Masters of Science degree from the Medical College of Georgia and earned her board certification in 2016. Lynsey has been able to experience hands-on surgery in the operating room, develop virtual reality, 3D printing, animation, gamification, and graphic design while working directly with students, faculty, and staff. As a team member, she believes in creating engaging work with a passion for creative problem solving through collaboration, inspiration, and innovation.

Paycor wanted an exciting experience to enhance their new hire program. Tracey created a wildly popular escape room game to review their day’s content and promote teamwork. 

Her first version was an in-person pop-up escape room but when COVID hit, she had to pivot to rethink and redesign it to be a virtual escape room but preserve the most fun parts.

About our Guest:

Tracey Stokely is the principal instructional designer at Paycor in Cincinnati, Ohio. Paycor is an HR technology company that provides business leaders with the HCM software tools, expert advice, and responsive service so they can make a difference in their organizations. She specializes in eLearning design and development. Tracey’s learning and development experience includes the software, contact center, and electronics industries.

Tracey is a member of the Learning Guild, won Best Mobile Solution at DemoFest at the 2019 DevLearn Conference, and has been a speaker at several conferences.

With the pandemic, facilitator-led corporate training was pushed to virtual platforms and many companies and freelances were not equipped to deliver experiential learning online.

Gaminar.net is a platform that enables educators to deliver serious games involving business and soft skills simulations online providing a seamless experience both for Facilitators and Participants.

Gaminar.net now has over 800 users who deliver their gaminars/simulations to their clients taking their virtual sessions to a higher level of engagement and training effectiveness.

About our guest: 

Fernando Mendes is a highly motivated and enthusiastic learning and development professional with over 20 years of experience in Organizational Development projects across Africa, North America, Europe, and the UAE.

Passionate about learning, he is the author of the book Start IUPI, a manual for teachers and parents on how to leverage entrepreneurial skills using simple and pragmatic games and exercises.

He is a trained standup comedian, and he brings his art of storytelling and performing into his training sessions, thereby making the sessions highly interactive and enabling higher learning retention.

Many GamiCon participants care about awards and would like to have the prestige that comes with winning an award. But how do you know if your gamified learning solution is award-worthy? 

How do you articulate the value your solution(s) delivered to the organization? Can you describe the problem your training solution helped solve?

Our panel of judges is also award-winning designers who will share their secret sauce for success with you!

A Player Journey can be used to guide players towards specific goals and deciding which journey you want to send players on is only the start. 

Let’s look deeper into what Player Journey can help you to achieve. The player journey is supposed to be fun, but for it to be fun it must be planned. 

A good journey will have twists and turns, BUT can you go overboard? 

Create, test, and review your player journey. Try your hand at creating a chatbot? Bring it on!

How can you use a motivation driver’s perspective to test your game designs in a more integrative way? 

Step 1:  Be aware of and consider the complexity of the mind of your user. What moves, excites, and challenges your players while they’re inside your system?

Check the different qualities of how your player feels and thinks while playing. Playtest your prototypes so that you can iterate and make the best of your learners’ motivational drivers for your design!

Ever wonder why genius supervillains fail to take over the world? In this session, use game-play and business-based research to accomplish your own version of world domination. 

More than just a hands-on learning session, this playshop will also give you ready-to-deploy tools you can use to set and achieve actual business goals within your teams and your organization. Through case studies and interactive exercises, award-winning trainer Scott Provence will show you how you too can take over the world.

Including compelling characters in your games creates opportunities for fostering a sense of connection, empathy, ownership, and meaning for learners while they experience the narrative you designed. 

Learn how characters contribute to your games. Build a character with their own physical, social, and psychological blueprint and then build the structure for a narrative based on what drives that character. Play with examples of how to incorporate and use characters in games and other gamified experiences.

About our guest:

Hadiya Nuriddin has two decades of experience in learning strategy, instructional design, eLearning development, and facilitation. She worked in corporate learning before choosing to found her firm, Duets Learning, where she's worked with a wide array of companies on a variety of topics. She speaks at events and industry conferences and travels teaching courses for the Association for Talent Development (ATD). Hadiya holds an MEd in curriculum studies, an MA in writing, and the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) designation. She is the author of the book StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect, published by ATD.

A client asked Mahesh Joshi if he could gamify a one-day seminar to generate greater interest in the material. The resultant product is a card game—BiggieBills—is a patented, interactive, and dynamic strategic thinking game. In this episode, Mahesh and Monica walk through the process from the first request to the implementation of the gamified program and iterations along the way.

About our guest:

Mahesh P. Joshi is an academic, an entrepreneur, and a consultant. He was the founding Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, George Mason University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship, the School of Business, George Mason University.

He is also the President of Joshi International, Inc., a consulting firm that provides strategic and entrepreneurial advice to clients. As an entrepreneur, he launched his first business in 1994, and since then has been involved in more than 10 startups. Recently he has launched a new venture with a vision to improve strategic thinking across corporations through the creation of a patented and interactive digital strategic thinking system through gamification (https://biggiebills.com/).

And our topic today is centered on highly engaging and effective projects that Deirdre and her team have created for clients. We’re going to explore together -  How Scenario-Based Learning and Gamification are Great Partners for High Impact Learning. 

About Our Guest: 

In 2014, Deidre established Game2Change Consulting Services to bring gaming, play, and experiential learning to the changing workforce. Since its inception, Game2Change has pioneered a new methodology in change and learning across multiple and diverse teams in South Africa;

Her current focus is to continually learn, improve, and innovate her current foundation; thereby contributing towards equipping the South African and African workforce to adapt and thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.