Make your next training solution fun!

Gamification is the process of taking eLearning content, such as routine tasks, skills, or information, and integrating game mechanics into it to motivate user participation and engagement. Gamification takes the same techniques that game designers use to engage players and applies them to non-game experiences to motivate actions that add value to an organization. PowerTrain’s gamification helps employees and their managers transform performance through awareness, engagement, and real-time feedback.

Some techniques used in this approach include: Adding meaningful choice, onboarding with a tutorial, increasing challenge, and creating an interesting narrative. Typically, games are thought of as very expensive approaches to instruction. However, we also have a variety of existing game templates that we can use to quickly create your product by swapping out logos and editing text files. PowerTrain incorporates games to add interest to material that may otherwise be dry, directly engaging our users with the course content. Games are great as a standalone learning tool—or we can use games to create a competitive environment in the classroom, where a student’s knowledge is challenged by a virtual opponent (much like Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?). Games may also be used to reinforce and even assess learning.

Narratives are a strong driver of human behavior. PowerTrain uses rich graphical narratives from social skills to sports to racing and more to engage users. Narratives provide deep context and drive balanced achievement, giving employees a sense of meaning, mastery, and autonomy.

Several of our designs use rewards for players who accomplish desired tasks. Types of rewards include points, achievement badges, or levels, or the filling of a progress bar. Making games task-oriented and goal-focused and competitive increases user engagement. Ultimately, these techniques help your users learn and retain the information presented in the game.