The following presentation is an excerpt from an open source, freely accessible courseware found at the UCIrvine Extension site, is probably one of the best summaries of gamification we could find. It runs about 35 minutes. The module, while free, does have a sort commercial in it for the UCIrvine online courses, but we have kept that part to a minimum and cropped the whole intro at the front…. as you review this material understand that our perspective, remember that our perspective is interactive design.. which is a part of overall instructional design. So, when you look at all of this try to keep the focus on designing interactive environments and what this all means to that process. In EDF 6282 (Instructional Design, we again look at games but from a more holistic vantage point.