Simple explanation with good links to more information from noted experts.

Suzanne Halloway in her Top Hat Blog provides a good explanation of gamification in education.

Henry Jenkins musings on play and learning and much more...

"When one teacher organized his students into teams of competing barbarians, they embraced learning about ancient Rome."

"A recent multicenter clinical trial of a commercial brain fitness program makes a case for why we should take brain games more seriously.

"A teacher shares how she gamified learning in her classroom—including both what worked and what didn’t".

Great ideas and leaderboards

Discusses great game elements like: mystery, action, challenge, risk, uncertainty and more.

The basic version is free. Just sign up for it with your email account. I would use the Logo template to make digital badges.

Make quizzes for free!

Create learning games for free!