Karl M. Kapp - The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Ideas into Practice

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Praise for The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook

A wonderfully useful hands-on, step-by-step guide to the creation of games, gamification and simulation experiences. This book is a must read and conveys clear and precise instructions for designing and developing learning that will creatively engage members of the current and future workforce. If you are in the field of learning and development and want to create meaningful instruction, this book is for you!

Jeanne Meister , founding partner, Future Workplace and coauthor of The 2020 Workplace

Its refreshing when an author turns a what book into a how book. For anyone who is trying to work their way through creating meaningful and effective learning games, this book is a godsend. The questions help you focus, the examples help you visualize, and the worksheets help you succeed.

Dawn Adams Miller , Learning & Development Solutions Group, Cisco

Bridging the digital media landscape between the worlds of learning and games, gamification and simulations, this is the perfect guide book both for instructional designers and game developers. Whether youre looking for ways to bring gaming elements to training, or if youre seeking solid instructional principles for games, this book by Kapp, Blair, and Mesch is an essential companion in your journey.

Rick Raymer , game designer

A long overdue book that gives corporate trainers and managers lots of facts and inspirations for how games and gamification can not only make training more engaging, but the content so much more sticky than traditional approaches.

Mario Herger , CEO of Enterprise-Gamification.com

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Karl Kapp

To my wife Nancy and my two wonderful sonsNathan and Nick.

Lucas Blair

To my wife Danielle, for tolerating my obsession with making and playing games,

and to my parents Donald and Cheryl, for always letting me play just five more

minutes.

Rich Mesch

To my friend Eve, for her unwavering support and constant encouragement to

think big.

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Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Six

Chapter Eight

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Figures, Tables, and Exhibits

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