Interview with Marie-Jo Leroux: How to Impact your Online Learning Experience with Games

In this video, I interview Marie-Jo Leroux, Founder of 42Comets about the role of games to enhance the online learning experience. While online courses are more accessible than ever, there's an opportunity for course creators to really impact and help their learners succeed by incorporating games. Gamification isnt new for many of us and we discuss different strategies to bring games to different topics and why that engages learners more than videos.

If you'd like to learn about game design, check out Marie-Jo''s upcoming course that teaches the principles of game design and prototyping: https://42comets.com/course-fog

00:00 Introduction & Experiences with Games
03:09 Games that Inspired Marie-Joe
04:15 Principles of Game Design for Any Class
07:08 Gamification Beyond Badges, Leaderboard and Points
08:33 Motivational Gamification -Using Points, Badges alongside your course
09:32 What Skills Can Help with Bringing Gamification in your Course?
10:59 Example of a Gardening Activity for an Online Course
13:28 Gamification Spectrum for Online Courses Beginning with Knowledge Checks & Assessments
16:17 Instructional Design Skills for Course Creators
17:41 Keeping Video Timing Short
17:47 Low Tech Game Examples Facilitated for Instructor Led Courses & Webinars
19:47 Distinguishing Between the Different Terminology of Gamification, Interactivity, etc
21:00 State of Focus with Gamification
22:16 What Rewards Do you Want to Offer your Learners?
24:57 Escape Room Games & Other Game Examples Based on your Content
27:54 Online Game Design Course for Learning Designers, elearning Instructional Designers.