project delphinium

Awards

Instructure Innovation Award 2015

Academy of Management Best Paper 2015

MED Best Paper in Management Education Award 2015

Outstanding Teaching Award UVU Extended Studies

Gamification World Congress

Video Contest Winner

Best Theoretical Contribution Finalist

Best Technological Development Contribution Contender

What is Project Delphinium?

A tool for adding game elements to canvas

Thanks Cary for theaward winning video!

How does it work?

Focus is on being easy and super flexible

These 15 lines of HTML…

<div class="info"> <ul> <li>• Mouse-over to see modules, click to access content</li> <li>• Mouse-over orange links to see prerequisite modules</li> </ul></div><div class="legend"><div class="miniSmallText">Key</div><br>{% component 'irislegend' %}</div><div class="miniBonus"><div class="miniSmallText">Health</div>{% component 'bonus' %}</div><div class="miniIris"><div class="miniSmallText">Exams</div>{% component 'exams' %}</div><div class="miniIris start"><div class="miniSmallText"><b>Start Here</b></div>{% component 'start' %}</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div class="largeText">Successful Organizations are...</div><div class="iris" style="background-color:#F4D49B"><div class="smallText">Excellent People...</div>{% component 'people' %}</div><div class="iris" style="background-color:#B0BF6C"><div class="smallText">Effectively Aligned with...</div>{% component 'align' %}</div><div class="iris" style="background-color:#B3C4D6"><div class="smallText">An Exceptional Idea.</div>{% component 'idea' %}</div>

Turn into this!

We have a growing list of game elementsLeaderboard

Experience

Health

Current Grade

Collectables

Module Interfaces

Achievements

Competency tracking

Progress indicators

Count down timer

Etc.

Current status

We are in an Alpha-Beta stage

Using it in a live course now

Lots of work left

User testing suggests changes

Improving/completing current tools

Adding new tools

Shooting for Fall to offer more support to UVU

Management education has become...

My research stream

Does gamification work? Why does gamification work?

Who is using Project Delphinium?

Me

Drivers Education

Working with Technology Management

Made lots of contacts at GWC

Tool has a limited open source licence - anyone can use it

Challenges

Steady hunt for resources

Programmers are hard to find in Utah - I’ve turned over 11 so far

They can get paid more just about anywhere else

Uncharted territory

Some trial and error to find out what motivates students

Consequences of design decisions can be difficult to predict

How can you get involved?Spread the word! Talk about us

Join us on social media

Suggest widgets on our website

Test and submit bug reports

Suggest design improvements/create graphic assets

Start building Delphinium environments

Start building components

Sponsor development

Make code contributions

Co-author a grant with us

Share your successes with us

Questions?