Download PDF: Revolutionising the Academy Platform LMS through gamification

There is an unruly mass of deadly dull eLearn­ing plat­forms out there. Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems designed with the base level of func­tion­al­ity in mind. The gen­eral approach is as fol­lows: login and plug away. The prob­lem, for most users, is that this offers all the appeal of a minor head-cold. Growth Engin­eer­ing hold that the learn­ing exper­i­ence should interest and engage the stu­dent — not put them to sleep. Is it so much to ask that our learn­ing exper­i­ence should be fun?

We have built an Academy Plat­form LMS that draws on one of society’s best engage­ment engines: gam­ing. By intro­du­cing game mech­an­ics to the world of online learn­ing, we can ensure our stu­dents are hooked — emo­tion­ally and intel­lec­tu­ally. The focus is on effect­ive edu­tain­ment, not lec­tur­ing or preach­ing. Ima­gine you had access to a plat­form that could re-ignite your desire for self-development. That could add extra lay­ers of motiv­a­tion to your desire for knowledge.

This may sound like some kind of Uto­pian ideal, but we believe that we have cracked it. We have cre­ated a Plat­form that does some­thing incred­ible: it makes the user’s learn­ing jour­ney fun. What fol­lows is our research on how gami­fic­a­tion can be applied to Academy Plat­forms in order to make the eLearn­ing exper­i­ence sig­ni­fic­antly more palatable.

Revolu­tion­ising the Academy Plat­form LMS through gami­fic­a­tion (178)

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