{"id":7494,"date":"2022-10-05T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wetak.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2022-10-05T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:13:40","slug":"podcast-gamification-applied-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wetak.com\/?p=7494&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: gamification applied to business"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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@The Good Gamer. Podcast 11: Video games and business.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>

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Juan Carlos Mart\u00edn, our Madrid Director, has participated in The Good Gamer’s podcast \u00abVideo games and company\u00bb<\/b>, a programme created by the AEVI (Spanish Video Games Association) to promote the proper use of video games.<\/span><\/p>

This episode, the eleventh of this season, <\/span>addresses the application of gaming techniques and video games to the business world.<\/b><\/p>

As Juan Carlos explains,<\/span>\u00a0gamification<\/a> consists of \u00abbringing elements, techniques and methodologies of games to the world of training to make training more attractive.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>

Although some companies still view gamification with suspicion because \u00abit seems that because you are playing you are not learning\u00bb, the key to serious games is that <\/span>\u00abtraining solutions based on games are focused on learning.<\/b> They are a way of measuring how they apply knowledge acquired either during the game or prior to the game.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>

\u00abLearning by playing is intrinsic to the human being\u00bb<\/b> and we therefore have to make use of that virtue to carry out practical and motivational learning, which on many occasions <\/span>means better assimilation than in more traditional learning.<\/b><\/p>

Among the <\/span>advantages of the serious games<\/b> that Juan Carlos cites are:<\/span><\/p>