From the course: Gamification for Interactive Learning
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How to minimize cheating
From the course: Gamification for Interactive Learning
How to minimize cheating
- Cheating is tempting. For some learners, the allure is greater than for others. While the main point of gamification is to provide the learners with an engaging and meaningful learning opportunity, some folks may only pay attention to the winning aspect, and therefore try to beat or game the system. Pun intended. No designer of gamification is going to stop cheating. Instead, the remedy is to test and retest the system for possible opportunities to cheat, monitoring the system to continually spot cheating, and setting goals and guidelines, as well as establishing and checking system parameters to avoid confusion or accusations of cheating. Let's go through these strategies. First, see whether or not you and your team can cheat the system. If you can figure out how to cheat, you can be sure others will as well. Find ways to cheat and fix them. Once you've found ways you can cheat, ask an outside group to find more, and they will. Tell them it's impossible to cheat and let them go at…
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