Educational Technology News: Gamification: What motivates users to play in non-game contexts?

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“William Shakespeare famously wrote that the world is a stage and its people, merely actors. If the business world had a bard of its own, he might remark that business is a game, and all of us are merely badge-seeking, virtual-farming,…

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