**5. Conclusion**

As research in the fields of neuroscience, pedagogy, psychology, and linguistics advance, there are exciting findings that help to better understand the nature of teaching and learning. The culmination of this research and effect of the increased understanding of how the brain functions and learns best should result in modifications being made to how education is structured and provided. Without the proper application of this emergent knowledge, education does not improve. Using this transdisciplinary approach towards informing best educational practices is essential.

Recent research from Rueckert et al. [15] and other gamification scholars provide strong evidence that gamified instruction is not just a novelty to pique the interest of students, but a modality that is more congruent with how the brain learns. Changes in how instruction is delivered and organized are hard to implement [23]. However, a change towards a more brain-friendly learning system, such as gamification, should be embraced.
