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Aspire is the Pre-ILP learning platform for the post offered candidates. The candidates go through a series of modules to make them proficient on the basic technical and professional knowledge. The Aspire portal has been gamified for making the platform more interactive and to increase engagement of the learners. The gamified portal is in its inceptive phase and there is room for increasing the efficiency of the platform in terms of user engagement and motivation.

The platform can be optimised by the application of the ARCS motivational design model of    Dr.John Keller. The ARCS model measures user engagement in terms of Attention, Relevance, Confidence and Satisfaction. The platform can also be tested for its emotional soundness through the application of the FEASP model, Constructivist emotionally oriented model and Csikszentmihalyi's flow model. The community of inquiry model of constructivism can also be applied to improve engagement in the portal. Prior to analysing the platform in terms of motivational design the learning experience of the users is to be recorded.

Learner experience can be recorded through an online survey of the joining candidates and the candidates now taking the assessment. In-person interviews of the top ranked candidates will give genuine feedback on the shortcomings of the platform. Also the grievances recorded through telephone calls can be taken as inputs for refining the platform. The user feedback will provide an indetail report of the effectiveness of the platform as a gamified e-learning system and help us to identify the defeciencies and address them thereby making it more appealing and motivating to the learner.