Gamification Strategies and Tips

•    Create benchmarks or indicators to measure performance

•    Provide meaningful rewards and recognition for accomplishment 

•    Keep it fun! The point of a game is to inspire, not force behavior.

•    Clearly define your goals or objectives. Focus on the goal that you want to achieve through the Gamification process (e.g. teach something), and try to identify potential distractions and eliminate them.

•    Try to provide instant feedback to ensure learning and improvement
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•    Most of the time quick and small rewards are most effective at driving the user's behavior than one big albeit rare reward.

•    Allowing the users to communicate and also view the progress and achievements of each other can lead to creating a strong community and engage the users even more.

•    Social media offer great opportunities to apply Gamification, either on their own or as a supporting tool for other systems.