Are you looking for more effective ways to increase employee engagement with your training plan and get more usage out of your LMS? Do you want to learn how you can increase how much time your users spend training? Today we’ll explore how gamification and game-based learning can be your closest allies as you work to reach these goals.
Employee engagement: the key to success
One of the biggest challenges training and HR managers face is keeping employees engaged with the training. This is especially true if it’s online, self-directed, and not mandatory. It can be difficult to get people to consistently use the LMS, but this is where gamification comes into play. By turning learning activities into interactive and engaging learning experiences, it becomes much easier to capture and keep your learners’ attention.
How to increase engagement and motivation
Here are some ideas to help you squeeze more out of your LMS:
- Interactive content: tap into games, quizzes, and simulations. Interactivity is much more attractive than long, boring texts—with the added benefit of fostering experiential learning and increasing knowledge retention.
- Narratives and stories: incorporate storytelling into your training. Aside from making it more entertaining and engaging, make it memorable and meaningful.
- Rewards and recognition: create a points and rewards system. As employees complete training modules, they can earn points that can be turned into awards or recognition.
- Challenges and competitions: create weekly or monthly challenges. This not only increases motivation to complete training but also fosters healthy competition among staff.
- Instant feedback: offer immediate, timely feedback. Employees want to know how they’re doing and what areas they can work on.
- Mobile accessibility: make sure your LMS can be accessed from any device. Allow employees to learn anytime, anywhere.
Get more usage out of your LMS
As mentioned previously, to improve your LMS’s occupancy rates, it’s crucial to offer engaging and relevant content. Game-based learning is so effective because it turns training modules into interactive games and realistic simulations. Not only does this increase employee time spent in the LMS, it also pushes experiential learning and drives knowledge retention.
The key is also for all activities and simulations to be followed up by immediate and personalized feedback that helps participants learn from their decisions and mistakes.
Increase employee training time
The ultimate goal here is to increase training hours and LMS usage. By embracing gamification and game-based learning, you not only get employees to increase their usage of the LMS, but they also actually start to enjoy the learning process.
Conclusion
If you’re ready to take learner engagement and LMS use to the next level, it’s time to consider gamification and game-based learning. At Game Strategies, they have the experience and tools to help you re-envision what’s possible on your learning platform.
To better understand the difference between gamification and game-based learning, check out this brief video, which dives into more detail.
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