Game based learning is not gamification. Game based learning is using games to enhance the learning in the classroom. The idea is nothing new. It has been around for decades dating back to even before the education game changer Oregon Trail was implemented almost everywhere in the 80âs.
Heroku is the following: A Web Application Deployment Model: Heroku is designed to help developers build web apps and get them out into the world, without having to worry about managing servers, scaling operations, or juggling the deployment process.
The competitor list is a little misleading. Most of the competitors in the list are offering cloud infrastructure as a service, whereas Heroku is selling their management of cloud infrastructure as a service. Heroku itself is a customer of AWS; when you push to Heroku, your app is sitting on AWS instances.