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Netflix and TikTok were both first-movers, but unlike larger businesses they haven’t diversified their services very much. It seems they’re starting with gaming.
The use of “gamification” in stock trading and other apps raises new legal challenges. Existing legal tools should be adapted to meet these challenges.
New research suggests gamifying neighbourhoods could encourage people to travel more actively.
Video gaming is often seen as a distraction for students. So the challenge is to distract students back towards learning – and video games provide the perfect model.
Researchers wanted to bridge the gap between traditional beliefs and Western understanding of the pandemic to provide strategies to reduce the risks.
Robinhood’s trading app uses features commonly found in video games and casinos to make investing more fun, which also obscures the real risks involved.
From step counters and active video games to apps for exercisers and tech-enabled gear, there are a lot of ways to combine your workouts with your digital life.
Applying elements of gaming to the way people work together can spark imaginative new ways of thinking and problem solving.
The supervised, structured and balanced use of Minecraft could allow students to fully benefit from the potential of this game to build skills and increase motivation.
The marketisation of higher education is just a symptom of what’s wrong with universities.
University course designers are harnessing the addictive quality of video games to develop ‘Serious educational games’ that engage and motivate students.
If innovations of our digital age are largely to blame for decreasing attention spans, don’t they also hold possible solutions?
Making education more like playing a game could dramatically improve learning.
How zombies and gaming can help students learn.
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In this month's episode of The Anthill, we are playing games – computer games, grammar games and real life games, too.
Using elements of game play, we can create incentives for people to change how and when they make various transport choices in ways that enable the whole system to work better.
The human psyche loves a challenge as well as a pat on the back for achievement. Pervasive computing taps into these drives to ‘gamify’ aspects of life that are typically not games or even much fun.
Introducing game-like elements into classrooms can boost student motivation and learning.
Children’s insatiable curiosity and search for new knowledge is getting lost somewhere along the way. We’ve mislaid the art of the question.
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Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant professor, business management, Heriot-Watt University
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Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Griffith University
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Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor in Behavioural Neuroscience, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Computer Games and Associate Dean Engagement, Bond University
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, Graphics and Multimedia, Sheffield Hallam University
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