Introduction to Gamification Part 4: Motivation (R.A.M.P, Maslow, SDT and more)

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Gamification / Book2019 / Education

January 30, 2019

Introduction to Gamification Part 4: Motivation (R.A.M.P, Maslow, SDT and more)

Warning, this is one of my longest blogs ever! Now we know a bit about what games, gamification and game-based solutions are (and are not), it’s time to start to consider some of the...

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Gamification

December 15, 2017

Intrinsic Motivation RAMP Misconceptions

As we head to the holidays I wanted to revisit an old “model” and just clarify a couple of items that have cropped up in conversation over the years. The item in question is...

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Gamification / Education / Just for Fun

August 21, 2017

New Book and some Slides

Quick update of stuff! First, I have a new book out called “The Little Cog”. You may recognise that as I have told the story here before. It is about a little cog who...

Gamification

June 4, 2015

5 essential Ps of gamification

I always like to try and simplify concepts to help me explain them to people, hence I keep creating acronym based frameworks!! (RAMP, EEEE, GAME etc.). Well, my latest is five essential Ps that gamification projects...

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Gamification

April 6, 2013

Motivation, let’s get real for a moment.

Dan Pink and Ryan & Deci are quoted a lot when we talk about motivation – I include myself in that and this is good – they have a lot of research to back...