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Engineering Education - Week 5.2 - Class Notes

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Engineering Education - Week 5.2 - Class Notes

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Great class today with guest speaker - NYU professor Jan L. Plass - the author of this week’s reading on the foundations of Game-Based Learning. 

The biggest takeaway was the distinction between a game-based learning experience vs. gamification. Gamification is a “buzz word” that people love to use or think of as a way to engage their users, to make their product more appealing, or effective. In reality, it’s a simple way of adding game-based features such as points, badges, or reward systems…