Gamification: It's Easier Than You Think!

This presentation will focus on educational gaming, clarifying the difference between gamified and game based learning and provide information on possible ways to gamifiy courses with little effort on back end development.

• Shaun Iles, Professor of Sociology and Sustainability with Mohawk College’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Iles is the Education Technology Facilitator for his department at the college and has a passion for creating online gamified education environments within the Brightspace ILP. In 2014 Shaun Iles won the Presidents Award and the Mohawk College Award of Excellence for work on mobile learning environments. Iles also was recognized as a Desire2Learn leading educator and received the Desire2Excel Award for Innovation in 2014. Most recently, Shaun has been nominated for the 2015 Teaching Excellence Award from Colleges and Institutes Canada and has been working extensively on a catalogue of supplementary educational games for use in online learning environments.