On October 1st, the announcement rings out: “It’s time to master those multiplication facts, everyone!” The goal? Memorize them all by Thanksgiving and never forget. But reality teaches us otherwise.

Gamification is one of the biggest in education trends right now in education. According to ISTE, “Gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a game” ...

A recent study of Algebra 1 classes in Ohio found that students whose coursework involved gamification and virtual realty (VR) from the ed-tech company Prisms outperformed their peers who learned the ...

Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, a pair of Ph.D. candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scrawled ...

Gamification can be a powerful tool to increase engagement. Unfortunately too often it's used to reward trivial activities. Social gamification may help prod people to engage in your community or ...

Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it? It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, ...

As a kid playing 80s- and 90s-era strategy games on the family PC, Adrian Hon secretly entertained the idea of designing video games of his own. Deterred by his middle-of-the-road math skills, he ...