boot.dev

the gamification system in boot.dev 

uses in game currency 

and that in game currency is based on experience points 

and not money 

using an ai teacher for one lesson or one challenge 

costs in game currency for the student 

and if the student clicks a reward option 

and then completes one lesson or one challenge 

then that student is rewarded with in game currency 

and that gamifies the education 

which is supposed to motivate the student 

but the economics of the system is severely unbalanced 

because it costs too much xp points 

for the student to use the ai teacher 

if the student does easy challenges 

since easy challenges gives too little xp points 

which forces the student to do too difficult challenges 

or lessons that are too difficult 

which rewards more xp points 

and that ruins the education of the student 

since the student needs to do many easy challenges 

in order to become good enough to do more difficult lessons 

the easiest solution 

is to completely remove the cost of using the ai teacher 

while keeping the low rewards for easy challenges