In reply to Paul Service.

Thanks, Paul. I agree that 'gamification' and initiatives like Mozilla's Open Badges are different things. I was using badges in the general sense, like getting gold stars. Good design has always been important for training courses, and game theory or epistemic games can be helpful. I have little interest in course design though, having left the instructional design field a long time ago to concentrate on non-instructional workplace learning. My concern is adding an artificial game layer to that 95%, which I think would be a big mistake.