Learning through Gamification

Beas Dev Ralhan is the CEO and co-founder of Next Education. He is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and London Business School. The very word ‘game’ brings us joy. Be it young learners or adults - everyone loves games and finds them interesting and stimulating. Albert Einstein expressed that games are not something that should be restricted to be a child’s pleasure; they have myriad deeper and meaningful aspects. Games promote stimulated learning and often become the avenue for children to explore higher-order thinking skills by creating, evaluating, analysing and applying knowledge.

- Beas Dev Ralhan

Gamification of learning and its importance

Gamification of learning can be defined as the incentivisation of the learning process using various gaming components. For instance, increasing the difficulty level of the next task/question after a learner successfully completes one, setting a time limit to a task such as reading and understanding a paragraph or solving five math problems in 10 minutes. Apart from this, motivational factors such as score points, competition, collaboration and immediate feedback and reward in the form of badges and stars are integrated into the regular teaching– learning process to maximise learner engagement and enjoyment.

Ways to incorporate gamification