If you were unable to attend our latest Colloquium in person, a video in now available of Dr. Scott Nicholson’s fascinating lecture on “Meaningful Gamification: Motivating Through Play Instead of Manipulating Through Rewards” held this past Thursday. Thanks to all who attended!

Dr. Nicholson is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Because Play Matters game lab and the Game Designers' Guild of Syracuse. He is an alumnus of the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Information Science at UNT. During 2011-2012, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the GAMBIT game lab. Dr. Nicholson is a published board game designer, wrote the book Everyone Plays at the Library, and was an academic reference librarian at Texas Christian University. He hosts a research blog at http://becauseplaymatters.com.