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I received my gamification certificate of completion from Kevin Werbach / Coursera / The Wharton School / University of Pennsylvania this week! The stats are that about 80,000 peeps enrolled in the course and, at an unusually high rate, 8,280 completed the course. Some of my 8,279 colleagues have overwhelmingly impressive resumes from Coursera and [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 5 October –- Gamification Lecture 12: Beyond the Basics! Advanced Gamification Techniques. Lecture notes from Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 6! Aww, the last class! The final unit details gamification-related techniques that go beyond those covered throughout the course, and concludes with a look toward the future. • [...]

Vaneeesa Blaylock Gamification Design Proposal TO: Cheyenne Kendrick FROM: Vaneeesa Blaylock RE: Gamification Proposal for GDP Our customers are among the smartest, most competitive, technologically savvy consumers in the marketplace. Because they have a high degree of professionalism our gamified program won’t want to look like a brightly colored, screaming children’s game, nor have the [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 5 October –- Gamification Lecture 11: Gamification Critiques & Risks. Lecture notes from Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 6! Aww, last week already – everybody’s getting nostalgic! There are many legitimate limitations, concerns, and dangers from gamification. Some of them can be avoided through thoughtful design, but others [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 29 September –- Gamification Lecture 10: Gamification Social Good & Behavior Change with Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 5! How to apply gamification to make the world better, or to improve people’s well-being, primarily through behavior change techniques. • Gamification / Coursera CLASS NOTES – PART 10 – [...]

Marveling at the student diversity in his Coursera / Wharton School class on Gamification, Prof. Kevin Werbach asked us to post images of ourselves participating in his virtual course: Post your pics! The amazing thing about this course is the diversity of students. You come from all over the world and all sorts of backgrounds. [...]

Saturday. No P2PU anywhere in sight. Working on Chapter 10 of Kevin Werbach’s Gamification course from Coursera / Wharton school today. Oh, Chapter or Lecture 10 is the “Social Good” chapter. We’ve mostly focused on external apps like marketing to customers, internal apps like improving sales knowledge and performance, and enterprise apps like motivating large [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 28 September –- Gamification Lecture 8: Enterprise Gamification with Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 5! Particular challenges and opportunities when applying gamification inside an organization. • Gamification / Coursera CLASS NOTES – PART 9 – Enterprise Gamification 9.1 Enterprise applications this week moving from external to internal: in [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 23 September –- Gamification Design Choices with Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 4! Saying that gamification is a form of design means that it should involve a creative, human-centered, thoughtful process to achieve the best results. This unit identifies important considerations and options. • Gamification / Coursera • [...]

PHILADELPHIA, 23 September –- Gamification with Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Week 4! • Gamification Home Page @Coursera Gamification done well is a form of design. This unit provides a six-step framework to apply to any gamification project. CLASS NOTES – PART 7 – GAMIFICATION DESIGN FRAMEWORK 7.1 Design Thinking [...]

Project Part II: Motivation You are approached by Ryan Morrison, the mayor of a medium-sized city in the Midwest of the United States. He has heard that you know a lot about gamification and believes that gamification techniques can transform city government. He would like to start with the health of city employees. The city [...]