We are pleased to congratulate Wendi Sierra on passing her preliminary exams earlier this week. She is now ABD and has begun work on her dissertation. There needs to be a badge for that. Can we gamify the dissertation? Wendi?

Let’s hope the dissertation badge is closer to the lightbulb and the heart-filled glass than the fire or green person running away.
Having trailblazed academic gamification with her work on CstheDay, Wendi now moves on to her dissertation, titled “Gamification as 21st Century Education.“ Her committee is Chris Anson, Doug Eyman (George Mason U), Susan Miller-Cochran, David Rieder (chair), and Ken Zagacki.