http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-gamification-of-books-good-idea-or-bad-idea/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 22:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-gamification-of-books-good-idea-or-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-1244332 Frank Lowney Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:09:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=80001#comment-1244332 Gamification sounds trivial or even gimmicky but it is based on serious scholarship in game theory and, in education, as "serious games." See: http://archive.futurelab.org.uk/projects/games-in-education Engaging the reader in some sort of quest is an old idea. Reading a "whodunit" for example. Taking that common sense and adding what has been learned about games and gaming in the last few decades is what this is all about. I was reading a free eBook from O'Reily on a recent plane trip entitled, "The Best of TOC" and was struck by the number of times gaming and game theory were mentioned. Obviously, its on the minds of influential people in the eBook space. Gamification sounds trivial or even gimmicky but it is based on serious scholarship in game theory and, in education, as “serious games.” See: http://archive.futurelab.org.uk/projects/games-in-education
Engaging the reader in some sort of quest is an old idea. Reading a “whodunit” for example. Taking that common sense and adding what has been learned about games and gaming in the last few decades is what this is all about.
I was reading a free eBook from O’Reily on a recent plane trip entitled, “The Best of TOC” and was struck by the number of times gaming and game theory were mentioned. Obviously, its on the minds of influential people in the eBook space.

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