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Awards like badges can get instructors more interested in teaching workshops, some campuses have found. But they don't work everywhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Reacting to the Past" began as one professor's experiment to enliven a dull class. Now it's at 500 colleges and counting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Black Friday in the U.S., focusing on efforts by retailers to lure consumers into stores and impulse purchases. Topics include webrooming, gamification, pay-to-play promotions, and discounts; steps taken by stores, such as improved in-store signs, store maps, and digital store maps to help consumers browse; and competition from electronic commerce.

The article discusses game theory in travel services, or smartphone application games and customer rewards programs that encourage travelers to explore destinations by offering points for answering trivia questions and sharing photographs on social media. The travel game Stray Boots, online travel service Expedia, and the use of social media website Foursquare by tourism offices are discussed, as well as the book "The Gamification Revolution by Gabe Zichermann.

The article discusses the concept of gamification when applied to higher education in the United States. Topics addressed include an overview of the concept as advocated by educational thinker Jane McGonigal, concerns over the underlying approach to gamification relating to students' lack of motivation, and discussion of different areas of professional and personal life which do not conform to the gamification model.

The article reports on the trends in the video game industry in the U.S. It says that the adoption of reward system by video game developers help attract more buyers due to satisfaction. It notes that the introduction and innovation of smartphones and the Internet contributed to the growth of the gaming business.