Gamification in eLearning:
Drive Engagement & Learning Results

We’ve heard of games and gamification in learning for more than a decade.

Many experiments and multiple failures later, games and gamification in the workplace have still survived. Now, it’s time for them to thrive. We are on a mission to explore why they work and through this exploration express ourselves with solutions that aid meaningful learning and also help achieve learning and business metrics that make a real impact.

Insightful Gamification Resources

Podcast

Podcast Episode #1 - The Art, Science and Emotion of Gamification with Jasmin Karatas

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eBook

eBook: Level Up Your Learning Game

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Webinar

Go Beyond with the Gamification of Workplace Learning with Jonathan Peters & Amit Garg

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Podcast

Podcast Episode #6 - Learning through gamification allows us to be more human with Mun Choong Lam

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Podcast

Podcast Episode #5 - Gamification will become mainstream, embedded, invisible, in the times to come with Jeevan Joshi

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eBook

eBook: Not Playing Around - Gamification for Workplace Learning

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Podcast

Podcast Episode #4 - Go into the process and get into the gamification of it with David Kreitlow & Matthew Steele

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Podcast

Podcast Episode #3 - Natural Dopamine Loops To Drive More Game Playing With Animesh Kumar

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Presenting Framework For Gamified Induction

Effective onboarding remains a challenge for most organizations. Gamification of onboarding programs can help but that needs time and money. With our new framework, we get you gamified induction programs fast and for less.

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Building games and gamified experiences is a craft that we’re extremely serious about.

We’re aware of the impact that they have on the learning and satisfaction of the players, and how immense that is from a modern learning perspective. We follow a few steps to ensure an all-round approach to solving with games & gamification.

We spend a substantial amount of effort on framing the business and the learning problem.

We give this problem a structure by building a narrative around it and gather the content.

We choose learning theories and integrate them with the game mechanics to bind the content together that fits the narrative.

We blend all of it together into a visual game-like experience and add short feedback loops to it, thus giving us a prototype.

We then do a thorough play-testing to identify and solve for the many bugs and/or features.

Testimonial

“Keeping gamification at its core, the framework designed by Upside Learning, intrigued teams across levels, deeply engaging them with the digital induction module. The impact created by this experience, is one that transformed our entire outlook towards designing learning and development modules for employees across the organization”

Animesh Kumar

President - HR & Transformation, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gamification is the practice of incorporating game elements--such as leaderboards, challenges, badges, and points, into non-gaming educational programs to boost motivation and involvement.

A complete game serves as the learning medium in game-based learning. Gamification, on the other hand, adds gaming aspects to otherwise traditional or digital learning scenarios in order to boost motivation.

It taps into intrinsic motivators like achievement, competition, and progress tracking. This increases time-on-task, knowledge retention, and voluntary course completion rates.

To keep learners interested, we employ progress bars, scoreboards, levels, interactive challenges, point-based quizzes, role-based missions, accomplishment badges, and scenario branching.

To keep students interested, we employ progress bars, scoreboards, levels, interactive challenges, point-based quizzes, role-based missions, accomplishment badges, and scenario branching.

Absolutely not. We have successfully used gamified solutions across all age groups and work responsibilities in the manufacturing, healthcare, banking, and other conservative industries.

Through integration with your LMS or CRM, we monitor engagement heatmaps, performance ratings, participation rates, and even link learning indicators to job KPIs.

Indeed. With gamification overlays, we may improve already-existing courses by including challenges, scoring, advancement, or game logic without having to completely redo the module.

Depending on the degree of complexity and interaction needed, we employ programs like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, Unity, and bespoke frameworks.

By encouraging behavior change, continuous learning engagement, and quantifiable learner motivation, gamification goes beyond passive content and is completely consistent with our performance-first design philosophy.

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Gamification in eLearning: Drive Engagement & Learning Results

We’ve heard of games and gamification in learning for more than a decade.

Insightful Gamification Resources

Podcast Episode #1 - The Art, Science and Emotion of Gamification with Jasmin Karatas

eBook: Level Up Your Learning Game

Go Beyond with the Gamification of Workplace Learning with Jonathan Peters & Amit Garg

Podcast Episode #6 - Learning through gamification allows us to be more human with Mun Choong Lam

Podcast Episode #5 - Gamification will become mainstream, embedded, invisible, in the times to come with Jeevan Joshi

eBook: Not Playing Around - Gamification for Workplace Learning

Podcast Episode #4 - Go into the process and get into the gamification of it with David Kreitlow & Matthew Steele

Podcast Episode #3 - Natural Dopamine Loops To Drive More Game Playing With Animesh Kumar

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Building games and gamified experiences is a craft that we’re extremely serious about.

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Gamification in eLearning:
Drive Engagement & Learning Results