CEPD · Module 5 — Serious games that rehearse
Mission interactions rehearse decisions and steps. Points without aligned practice are decoration.
About 16 min
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A bank adds points, badges and a leaderboard to its compliance course. Completion rises in the first month. The phishing simulation results do not change, because nothing in the course asks anyone to inspect an email. The game layer motivated people to click through the same content faster.
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Garris, Ahlers and Driskell (2002) describe a cycle: instructional content, game characteristics that embody it, the learner's judgments and actions with feedback, and a debrief that connects play back to the job. A leaderboard with no step scoring skips the middle and the end. Points for clicking Continue are not a mechanic; they do not change what the learner must do.
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Serious interaction: Score depends on doing the job steps correctly. · Constraints come from the job (time, missing data, a scanner fault). · Ends with a debrief on which steps matched policy.
Gamification decoration: Score depends on screens viewed. · Constraints are arbitrary (collect three stars). · Ends with a badge.
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A mission that marks complete when the learner reaches the last screen, whatever steps they skipped, teaches that the path does not matter. Score the steps that match the action map. A timer is allowed when the job is actually timed. Reaching the end is not the evidence.
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Deterding and colleagues define gamification as using game design elements in non-game contexts: points, badges, levels around ordinary content. Game-based learning makes the practice itself a game: a simulation with goals, rules, feedback and consequences. Landers' theory of gamified learning adds a useful point: gamification can change behaviour (time on task, completion), and that only improves learning if the behaviour it encourages is itself useful practice. Points for retrieval practice can help. Points for viewing slides reward the wrong behaviour.
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Choose one job sequence from your course that has steps, constraints and real consequences. Write the action-map sentence for it. This is the subject of your mission design.