Eight Reasons Why You Should Earn a Gamification Certification

Why earn a Gamification Certificate?

Is there value in earning a Gamification Certificate? Is it worth the effort? We’ve asked some CEOs, L&D, and HR professionals to share their impressions of the value of a gamification certificate. Maybe what they had to say will give you the answers you need.

On-boarding: A Gamification Reflection

By Jonathan Peters, PhD

Sententia Gamification, CMO

www.SententiaGames.com

In his seminal work describing flow, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi discusses the frustration we feel when a challenge is more difficult than our abilities, or how boring a task will be if our skills surpass the challenge. Flow, he says, comes at the balance between challenge and ability. The more skilled we are, the more we enjoy challenges.

At the beginning of a training program, skills are low. Even if we are accustomed to other learning programs, and even if this program should be beneath our skill level, the fact that it is unfamiliar territory means we will revert to the level of novice.

People and Ideas I follow

by Jeffrey Riley
​Practical Learning Concepts, LLC

There are several people I follow in the learning and development world. I hope listing their blogs or websites here will help you as well.

Tom Kuhlmann The Rapid eLearning Blog A must for Articulate users but of benefit to anyone who wants to know more about eLearning and design. Did I mention Tom is a PowerPoint guru?

Cathy Moore's Blog has a lot of great ideas. She may be best known for Action Mapping and Scenario Design.