News

• Netflix gamified? Netflix Is Testing Patches to Gamify Bingeing for Kids
• Gamified transcription. Apologies for the clickbait, but: Public media archives. Gamified transcription. Go ahead and click
• Games as learning tools. Assassin’s Creed Origins Is Reinventing Gamified Learning

Jobs

• The Gamification Group is hosting and coaching MSCA-IF candidates with the goal of providing 3-year postdoc positions
• HealthStream is looking for a Director of Talent Development & Performance who has “Experience with micro-learning, gamification, simulation or adaptive learning preferred.”
• ADT is looking for a Director of Learning Solutions who has “Experience with multiple learning content development approaches (micro-learning, gamification, learning assessment, virtual classroom, MOOCs, etc.).”

Research

• Encouraging fitness in older adults. Adaptive engagement of older adults’ fitness through gamification (pdf)
• Flip it (with gamification)! The Flipped MOOC: Using Gamification and Learning Analytics in MOOC Design—A Conceptual Approach (html)
• Gamification + Maths = Fun? Data analysis and learning analytics for measure effects of gamification in a math online project (pdf)
• For those of us down under. Can Gamification Increase Employee Engagement in a New Zealand Context? (pdf)

And finally...

• Start your engines! Mario races around Google Maps for 1 week