Gamify Your College Classroom

Into our doom and gloom world, with constant predictions that teachers are all going to be replaced by AI, comes this upbeat book to provide a cheerful antidote and start a fresh conversation. Whatever your discipline, it’s hard not to want to dip into this compendium and fantasize about how it might apply to your own classroom. The authors are thoughtful, knowledgeable, realistic, and more than a little inspiring. Whether you end up being an advanced practitioner in gamification, or just an armchair curricular dreamer, this persuasive volume provides new ideas for thinking creatively about how we engage students in meaningful learning encounters that can reinvigorate their futures, and ours. Teresa Dawson, Teaching Professor in Geography, University of Victoria, Canada A very compelling and insightful book that offers a fresh perspective on the topic of using gamification in the classroom. The authors who contributed to this book provide a wide and diverse range of topics, such as using “Storytelling and Escape Rooms,” “Role-Playing,” and “Semester-Long Gamification.” Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi delivers a collection of meticulously researched chapters and engaging writing style that makes this book an essential contribution to the field of higher education. I encourage anyone interested in the fascinating topic of gamification to add this book to your collection. E. David Moss, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Mt. San Jacinto College, USA