Gamified Learning
What is Gamified Learning?
Gamified Learning incorporates game elements, principles, and mechanics into the training curriculum to intrigue, focus, and energize learners. Learners develop and test their skills through gameplay, advancing through successive levels by taking action and experiencing outcomes as the game progresses. As in a video game, learners can “fail” a level and must try again, teaching them how to plan and execute actions to achieve success. The game experience often includes points, badges, leaderboards, challenges, and rewards, which enhance engagement, motivation, and learning outcomes.
How do learners benefit from Gamified Learning?
Increased Engagement
Game mechanics help learners focus more intensely and actively participate in their learning.
Improved Motivation
The competitive and rewarding nature of Gamified Learning boosts learners’ motivation and enthusiasm.
Enhanced Retention
Interactive and repetitive game elements reinforce learning, leading to better retention of information.
Better Performance
Because learners continuously practice skills in authentic simulated contexts, they develop skills ready for successful on-the-job performance.
Instructive Consequences
Gamified systems provide real-time feedback by showing the consequences of decisions and actions, helping learners associate specific actions with either positive or negative results.
Social Interaction
Many Gamified Learning platforms include collaborative capabilities to foster teamwork and communication among learners.
Why should I use Gamified Learning?
Gamified Learning is particularly valuable when:
It is excellent for complex tasks that require repeated practice to master.
Learning isn’t always viewed as exciting or even welcome, but fun instructional games have an appeal that draws in a wide range of learner attitudes.
While learners of every age can benefit from Gamified Learning, it is particularly effective for younger audiences and those who are tech-savvy.
Nearly all content can be gamified, but especially practical, hands-on, and skill-based content that involves analysis, decision-making, or properly sequenced or time-sensitive actions.
Featured Case Study
AutoNation Case Study
Optimizing Sales Enablement and Productivity
AutoNation, America’s largest automotive dealer with over 20,000 sales associates, faced a common sales struggle: too much content, too many people, and too little time to train them. The company needed a scalable, repeatable, and productive training solution that minimized time away from the sales floor and delivered measurable increases in unit sales, ROI, and total revenue growth.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following:
20% increase in sales rep retention
22% increase in productivity (sales per rep)
$10 million in additional profit
Is Gamified Learning right for my needs?
Gamified Learning is a powerful tool to enhance engagement and effectiveness in training programs. Everyone prefers fun, active learning over boring, passive learning. Gamified Learning could be a great fit if your training objectives include building teamwork, motivating participation and achievement, improving retention, and energizing repeated practice of essential skills without boring the learners.
How can Allen Interactions help implement Gamified Learning?
Allen Interactions has led the interactive online training field for decades, developing new technologies and training methodologies along the way. Over that time, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations use training to create workforces that excel in their roles, from front-line customer service to exceptional sales performance to mastery of industry-specific fundamentals.
As part of our growth as a customer-focused company, we have developed, refined, and proven a comprehensive process that ensures we understand your needs in detail, develop needs-based and goal-driven learning solutions, and then implement them inside your organization, training staff so they can confidently and fearlessly manage the solution.
Customer Testimonials
Allen Interactions created an extremely engaging, interactive sales process course, with complex interactions between sales associates and customers. This pilot resulted in some incredible results!
Kenneth Gregson
Director Variable Operations Learning & Performance, AutoNation
Customer Testimonials
Adults are looking for untraditional learning experiences. Coupled with innovations in core business strategies within, we had the perfect moment to create a seamless experience for the independent sales force with Allen Interactions.
Kathryn Hunt-Siwald
Manager, Sales Education Materials & Strategic Education, Mary Kay
Customer Testimonials
By incorporating fun, engaging content into the Penn Foster online learning experience offered by schools like Penn Foster, we belive our students will be better able to retain the information, not only for their exams, but to apply in the workforce and entirety of their careers as medical professionals.
Dara Warn
Chief Operating Officer, Penn Foster Education Group
How can Allen Interactions help implement Gamified Learning?
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Years of Innovation
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Clients Served
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Custom Interactions
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Awards Received
Why Work with Allen Interactions?
Our clients often say that we understand training development better than any other company they’ve met. We take that as high praise, indeed. But, we know that choosing a partner you’ll entrust to develop your mission-critical training solution requires us to demonstrate, to you and your team’s satisfaction, that an Allen Interactions eLearning Program will meet or exceed your expectations.
We encourage you to ask us (and everyone on your radar) to demonstrate capabilities in these critical areas:
Lead with listening
How do they ensure they understand your needs?
Proven track record
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Ability to customize a program
Do they rely on predefined templates, or can they customize technology to meeting your unique requirements?
Technology agnostic
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Scalable solutions
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Provide robust analytics
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Exceptional user interfaces
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Integration with your existing
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Support and training
How do they get you up and running and keep you there?
Quality, current, accurate, and
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Cost-effective with proven ROI
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