Gamification: Motivation Psychology & The Art of Engagement

This is a course that will teach you about human beings and what encourages them to do the things they do. This unique course is inspired not just from text books and science experiments, but from personal, first hand experience. Experience teaching children, managing teams and design applications. 

The curriculum is designed to be studied over several weeks, with each video giving you interesting concepts and studies to take away, think about and discuss with the tutor and the other students. You'll be encouraged to bring your personal engagement challenges to this course so we can build an engagement plan together.

If you're an application designer, teacher, manager or parent, the psychology to motivate your people is the same and by the end of this course you'll have built an incredibly simple engagement plan to motivate change in any community. You'll not only finish the course with your engagement plan, but the ability to easily reproduce it any time in the future you need to motivate change in a community.

• Introduction
• Why We Shouldn't Motivate With Carrots
• Dopamine: The Natural Reward Chemical
• Pavlovs Dog and skinners Rats
• What Naturally Motivates Us?
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
• Section Summary
• Status
• Social Proof
• Giving Feedback
• Creating Rules
• Make It Difficult
• Stepping stones
• Reward Loops
• The Desire To Master
• It's Always Been About Meaning
• What Do People Really Enjoy?
• Creating Meaning
• the Art of Storytelling
• Masters of Contributing
• Give Them Options
• Let Them Fail
• We Love To Fail
• Status Seesaw
• Kill Your Ego
• Finding Community
• Loneliness Epidemic
• Let Them Help
• What's Stopping Us Been Us?
• Building Our Engagement Plan: Part One
• Building Our Engagement Plan: Part Two
• Building Our Engagement Plan: Part Three
• Examples
• Examples: Games
• Examples: Feedback
• Examples: Multi Sensory Feedback
• Examples: Progress Bar
• Examples: Multiple Feedback
• Examples: Continual Progress
• Examples: Loss Aversion
• Examples: Currency
• Examples: Gold Card
• Examples: Lottery
• Examples: Likes
• Examples: Engagement vs Motivation
• Thank You and See You Soon