An instructional design hot-topic and industry trend that’s been around long enough now to have out-lived the hype, gamification continues to register with audiences as an engaging and effective component of work place training. When done correctly, gamified learning boosts the “fun” quotient that is often lacking in page-turner corporate training and can add a new level of competition and team-building that standard e-Learning doesn’t possess.
In particular, gamification can really improve compliance training. Why? Well, here’s what we know about most workforce compliance training:
- It can be dull, tedious, and absent of interactivity
- Due to the expanse of information it can cover, it is often delivered in a lengthy and sometimes incremental program
- It provides a range of opportunities to implement real-life scenarios that presents choices and remediation to learners through a practical application of the content
Gamified learning can address each of these points by immediately enhancing a given course’s interactivity level. Gamification demands that learners uncover, collect, compare, tally and engage course content in interesting and surprising ways. Moreover, learning courses with extended seat times or organized as part of a segmented deployment benefit from the continuity and cumulative aspect of gamification. Whatever device it might be – collecting the top score, climbing the mountain, circumnavigating the gameboard – learners want that sense of completion and accomplishment that gamified learning elements provide.
Gamification and scenario-based learning are often paired together. And with good reason. Well-written, practical scenarios demand learners make choices (and see the consequences of those choices) in real-life settings. Adding gamification can enhance these interactions by bringing life to the stories and conversations that drive the learning. And by creatively gamifying situations that replicate work environment experiences, learner participation, content retention, and the overall resonance of the training increases.
Propio, is an industry leader in creating meaningful, effective training that customizes solutions to fit the needs of your business. Come check out how we can use gamification to take your training to new levels of engagement and fun.
