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How Games Shape Our Minds with Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

CHAPTER

University Rankings

There's really there's kind of formal gamification where someone is so term gamification means when people try to approach real world activities and then apply to them design features from games. So fit bit, strava, Duolingo, Twitter, lots of things are going on in the university right now. These are intentional gamifications. There's another thing that happens where for some other reason someone comes up with some metric or ranking a lot of the times it's informational,. And we often treat that as a game, right? I think when people made the US News World Report rankings they weren't trying to create a game but make public information more accessible.

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