[-empyre-] benefits of practice to conventional research / could gamification save academia?

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:14:43 +0100, Lasse Scherffig wrote:
> If gamification is to "save" academia, I think it should
> be through playing against it (think of speedruns and meta-gaming).

Online gamification is usually a way of getting people to do work 
without monetary reward.

And gamification has conceptual problems:

http://www.kmjn.org/notes/soviet_gamification.html

http://www.selfawaregames.com/2011/11/15/the-failures-of-gamification/

http://blog.learnboost.com/blog/3-reasons-not-to-gamify-education/

But exams and degrees are already gamification of education. And 
badge-based accreditation of achievement outside the academy is a way of 
reproducing this. So I think copying the aesthetic of gamification 
inside the academy would be less of a shift than people might think.

- Rob.