{"id":865,"date":"2010-03-19T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:39:10","slug":"replacing-grades-with-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/03\/replacing-grades-with-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Grades With XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a game design class at Indiana University, traditional grades have been replaced by Experience Points:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/education-game-idol.png\" alt=\"education-game-idol\" title=\"education-game-idol\" width=\"106\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-870\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStudents of Indiana University&#8217;s game design classes start as Level 1 avatars with 0 XP, and progress by completing quests solo, as guilds, or in &#8216;pick up groups.&#8217; Course coordinator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~telecom\/people\/faculty\/sheldon.shtml\">Lee Sheldon<\/a> says students are responding with &#8216;far greater enthusiasm,&#8217; and many specifics of game design could also be directly applied to the workforce. These included: clearly defining goals for workers; providing incremental rewards; and balancing effort and reward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/03\/18\/0313208\/Professor-Ditches-Grades-For-XP-System\">Slashdot<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itnews.com.au\/News\/169862,employers-look-to-gaming-to-motivate-staff.aspx\">Employers: Look to gaming to motivate staff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a game design class at Indiana University, traditional grades have been replaced by Experience Points: Students of Indiana University&#8217;s game design classes start as Level 1 avatars with 0 XP, and progress by completing quests solo, as guilds, or in &#8216;pick up groups.&#8217; Course coordinator Lee Sheldon says students are responding with &#8216;far greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}