Position Paper : Gamification in Education ” : sResearcher

International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE)

Recently, learning environments have transformed from traditional, lecture-based learning environments to team-based, experiential and problem based learning to prepare learners for a more complex and collaborative world. One teaching approach that embodies these essential characteristics of learning is gamification. Gamification is the application of gamified thinking and game mechanics to solve problems and increase engagement (Çeker & Özdam, 2017). Gamification is characterized by its ability to achieve cognitive, emotional, and behavioural effects by giving students opportunities to improve their critical thinking skills, arouse their feelings of curiosity, and increase active participation, respectively. However, giving consideration to gamification as an approach for education and learning is still a controversial subject. It is our position of this paper that as educators, we believe that gamification engages learners, motivates them to learn, satisfy their needs, and transfe...

Learning is a goal driven social activity determined by motivational factors. To be able to effectively gamify learning for improved student motivation and engagement, the educators have to understand the related aspects studied in games, motivational psychology and pedagogy. This will help them to identify the factors that drive and explain desired learning behaviors. This article presents a survey of the main approaches employed in gamification and the emerging new directions in the context of the relevant motivational psychology and pedagogy. The focus is on the motivational factors that impact learning and understanding of behavior change. The goal of the article is two-fold: from one side, to provide an analysis of and guide to relevant works related to gamification along with outlining emerging trends, and from the other, to provide foundation for evaluation and identification of areas of possible improvements.

2014

Today's learners are digital natives. They grew up with digital technologies. Teachers have to solve important issues related to the adaptation of the learning process towards students who have different learning styles and new requirements for teaching and learning. Gamification is one of the educational approaches and techniques that increase motivation and engagement of learners. The aim of the current work is to study and present the nature and benefits of gamification and to provide some ideas how to implement it in education.

Inform : Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi, 2021

Gamification has been widely adopted in many areas, including in the educational context. The students need to be motivated in following the learning process because everyone feels happy to learn if there is no coercion. By presenting something fun and enjoyable, students are expected to be more involved in the learning process, which will achieve better learning outcomes. Gamification is very reliable in bringing fun and pleasure to the learning process for the students. We analyze three items from the previous study; the intention and what the goals are expected, how to design, and the result of gamification in the education context. We found the intentions of gamification adoption in an educational context. They are to increase students' motivation to learn and present an alternative learning method that is more fun and enjoyable. And for the success of this gamification program, a game application can be developed using existing sophisticated technology and by presenting a r...

British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019

2020

Vien Pham GAMIFICATION ON LEARNING-Gamifying the Gamification and Serious Games course Recently, gamification has become a trending topic in the world. Using game elements in a nongame context could improve the engagement and motivation of people in many fields. Particularly in higher education, this method has been applied successfully by educators. Taking advantage of gamification, this thesis aims to apply gamification into the Gamification and serious game course at Turku University of Applied Sciences, which would become an online course, in order to increase motivation and engagement of students in the course. To achieve the objectives of the study, a design science research approach has been used to collect lecturer viewpoints and student's ideas about gamification to create a prototype and obtain feedback from the experts and then finalize the course mockup. The findings indicated that students and lecturer were supportive of such an environment and the data they gave related to the prototype learning environment. Furthermore, the expert evaluator suggested to include a feedback area. Finally, a gamified online learning environment has been developed according to student, lecturer, and expert feedback. In the future, the mockup of gamified website will be tested further with students and is expected to be launched for the 2020 Gamification and Serious Games course.

International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 2019

The idea of Gamification is very popular for applying the gaming concept theory in various fields. Nowhere else is this more important than in education. Consid-ering the careful build-up and implementation of game-elements could improve academic performance outcome and student motivation. However, Gamification could require much more time to be designed and applied to education related ac-tivities and it also comes with significant operating and design cost to provide highly engaging activities for students. One of the main problems in designing Gamification is the question: “which game elements should be applied to student activities?”. Moreover one must make sure that it has great impact on students’ performance in terms of their education related performance. Hence, in this re-search, we focused on studying the impact of each element in order to investigate the behavioral outcome of game elements in educational environments through the concept of knowledge and game-based learnin...

2017

Traditional teacher-oriented teaching methods in a lecture style are no longer viewed as effective enough for learning and are therefore criticized. It is generally agreed that the modern education should engage students, stimulate interests and maintain a positive attitude. In other words, there should be a way to further learning for example by combining it with playing. This is why many educators and researchers devise new strategies, tools, methods and techniques of novel and engaging activities in order to gamify education. Gamification is often defined as the use of game mechanics and game design techniques in non-game contexts. The present study focuses on investigating possibilities of gamification at school and in a classroom setting. In this study, to complement current research knowledge in the field of classroom and education gamification, students and teachers (n = 120) provided their point of view how to utilize gamification for learning and teaching purposes. As a res...

2018

The students today are often referred to as ‘digital natives’ who have grown up in the digital age and as a result think and process information differently than the previous generations (Prensky 2001). Living in a digital age with digital natives, whose perception of learning differs from that of the generation(s) preceding them, it is the duty of educators to be receptive to new methodologies of learner engagement that might help to shape a learning environment better suited to the new type of learners (Dyer 2015:65). The need for a new approach to teaching and learning in general is stated also in the Estonian Lifelong Learning Strategy 2020, a document that guides the developments in education in Estonia in 2014-2020. Gamification, the use of game elements in non-game contexts (Deterding et al. 2011), is said to have great potential also in education as it helps to increase both user engagement and motivation Simões et al. (2013). The aim of this thesis is to locate and analyse ...

Test Engineering and Management, 2020

Gamification is a genre of social interaction that concerns those in fields like academia, as well as professionals of business, education, and information technology. However, as a term, it remains hindered as of varied uses and meanings, it has been divided according to its educational usability. It has been dealt with in terms of merits and demerits to validate its usefulness by offering the proof to encourage those specialized in education as well as entertainment. In this paper, a general overview of gamification and in education respectively (i.e. learning and teaching) with a glimpse from empirical studies. Followed by an examining of its contributions for a better improvement in the educational process in general. This articles gives a general description overview on the use of gamification in understanding its applicable usefulness in the field of education due to its feature of edutainment. It outlines gamification in both theory and action, with an emphasis on empirical side in relation with context and purpose and context. Furthermore, it shows that gamification as a conceptualized concept is emerging in the field of education to meet the expected outcomes. A discussion on the probability of the way gamification to be more useful as a subdivision to improve the systems of interaction of user experience by using gamified design. The paper concludes with suggestions of nonstop investigations of gamified applications and its effectiveness.