What?s the Difference Between Games and Gamification?

Noted: Outside of education, some call these ?reward, recognition and motivation programs.? And Alex Chisholm, executive director of the Learning Games Network, a spin-off from the MIT Education Arcade and University of Wisconsin, shared an equivalent perspective recently when he noted that saying you?re going to ?gamify? something in education means you?re applying game design principles to motivate and inspire learners.