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A young girl sits calmly with a tablet in her lap. On the screen, small cartoon fish swirl about in a pattern. Smiling, she puts a finger on the screen and the fish begin to coalesce into alphabet characters.

This girl is learning two valuable lessons. First, she’s mastering the alphabet, a tool that will help her communicate, love and express herself for the rest of her life. The second, and the reason she’s learning these characters before anyone else in her kindergarten class, is the power of gamification. Gamification is a process that incorporates game mechanics into learning and accelerates the learning process while improving retention.

Gamification has been around for as long as people have played learning games in class, rolled the dice in trivia games or even thrown spears through rolling hoops. But gamification, as terminology and in practice, is seeing a revolution with the advent of eLearning. Its introduction has meant big advances in classroom education and even bigger advances in workplace training.

Maybe it’s time that you incorporated gamification and took your safety training courses online! Here are 5 reasons why you should.