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A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn
Masters of Scale
Duolingo - The Power of a Leader Board
Last year, we took a concert from gaming where the ideas you actually make a leader board with strangers. And so this was very powerful at duolingo. In fact, just adding this leader board increased the average time spent by uses on dulingo by 20%. But it created some people who were basically only motivated by this leader board and they started doing things that were not good for their learning. We don't want to get these people always learning the word for man at trillium times. Yet the game dynamic is to help them.
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