It involves designing learning activities so that game characteristics and game principles inhere within the learning activities themselves.

It applies game elements or a game framework to existing learning activities

It designs learning activities that are intrinsically game-like.

It is a training that uses game elements to teach a specific skill or achieve a specific learning outcome.

It is the application of game mechanics in a non-game context to promote desired behavior and drive learning outcomes.

It takes your core content and objectives and makes it fun.

Think points, badges, leaderboards and incentives.

It fully integrates the two, game mechanics with training content, so the game is the training

It uses game elements as a reward for completing existing training modules.