Learning new tools and their concepts through gamification

How we can use gamification to improve the learning process of infrastructure related subjects.

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1. Learning new tools and their concepts through Gamification.
2. I'm an engineer / consultant at Xebia 
 solving customer's interesting problems.
4. Self-paced workshops allow you to learn 
 in your own time and at your own pace.
5. Spin up a new environment for each
 person in just ~40 seconds. + = ❤
6. Complete Consul, Vault, Terraform 
 and Nomad challenges to earn points.
13. Mr. Roboto vs. EvilCorp. The big showdown of
16. Every time the feedback was the same. 
 An engaging, effective and fun learning tool.
17. Now lets get back to the topic of learning.
18. How do we currently learn new tools and their concepts?
19. Plowing through docs and following training 
 courses is not effective / efficient.
20. Everything is changing with increasing speed.
21. In just one year we have four schedulers 
 take the stage.
22. Keeping up with all the new tools 
 and their concepts is impossible.
23. How do you choose which of these tools to focus on?
24. It's not only about specs and costs. Operational simplicity and required knowledge are also a factor.
25. Diving into these tools means investing 
 time and $$.
26. learning new tools? What are we looking for when
27. 1 Something that fits into our existing schedule.
28. 2 Something that challenges us to think for 
 ourselves, not just to follow along.
29. 3 Something involving that allows for trial & error.
30. 4 Something that teaches more than just the happy flow.
31. 5 Something we can relate to, and can 
 apply to our own situation.
32. 6 Learn from others and discover what knowledge we are missing.
33. up to these requirements? How does gamification stack
34. 1 Something that fits into our existing schedule. • Challenges are bite-sized. • Challenges are self-paced.
35. 2 Something that challenges us to think for ourselves, not just to follow along. • Learn by doing. • Think for ourselves. • Not just how to get started.
36. 3 Something involving that allows for trial & error.
 
 Something that teaches more than just the happy flow. • Keep trying until we solve it. • Learn the quirks of the tools.
37. 5 Something we can relate to, and can apply to our own situation. • Simulate real life scenarios. • Using our own tools / environment.
38. 6 Learn from others and discover what knowledge we are missing. • See how others solve problems. • See how we stack up to others. • See in which areas we can improve.
39. Other sectors have gamification of the learning process, such as CTF.
40. Teaching kids how to code.
41. Even vim keybindings can be fun!
42. Why is there not such a thing for learning infrastructure related subjects?
43. at a customer case. Applying the lessons learned
44. Learn from both making challenges and completing them.
45. We can track the progress of the knowledge transfer to the team.
46. Can keep acquiring and sharing knowledge long after we are gone.
47. So what does this look like?
48. Pick from multiple competitions.
49. Play through connected scenarios.
50. Complete the challenges in the browser.
51. And create them, using the same interface.
52. Come join us, we have cookies. What's in it for you?
53. Complement your documentation with challenges.
54. Use real life scenarios to learn how 
 to handle them.
55. Assess new colleagues by challenging them.
56. Learn from each other and yourself.
57. expand upon this idea? How can we further
58. Multidisciplinary cooperative challenges?
59. Branching storylines based on your choices?
60. Thank you. github.com/eveld twitter.com/erikveld eveld@xebia.com