Weekly Sporto bookmarks (weekly)

• Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

  tags: machine learning artificial intelligence

• Gamification Applications and Digital Badges - Stan Garfield - Medium

• What is Gamification: How points, badges, challenges, and charts boost the companies’ annual turnover

  tags: gamification badges

  • The generic goal of gamification is to promote the active interest of users, their engagement, to modify their behaviors
  • For having a positive effect on the business, it is necessary that gamification’s users have fun
  • More over the app propose other statistics including a social dimension that gives the possibility to challenge friend and compare results and score, so that the runners community always knows who are people on the top.
  • Mechanics, which was the single bricks that built the whole products gamification structure; they are usually associated with some actions that allow to reach business goals.
  • Dynamics, so the needs and desire, studied by behavioural psychology, rooted inside people and that could be gratified through interaction with game mechanics.

• The Benefits of Using Digital Badges in an Online Course - SPS | Distance Learning

• How Gamification Badges Motivate Learners to Succeed

• Instructional Design Templates | Instructional Design Central (IDC)

  tags: instructional design templates

• Mobile Divides in Emerging Countries | Pew Research Center

  tags: mobile learning mobile phones digital-divide emerging countries Pew

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