A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation

The students' lack of motivation is a usual problem. The students value more the obtention of the degree than the developing of competences and skills. In order to fight this, we developed a gamification's experience based on merits and leaderboards. The merits are linked to the attainment...

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Autores: Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián, Robles, Sergi, Pons, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Motivation in education--Study and teaching
Learning ability Study and teaching
Gamification
Merits
Leaderboards
Skills
Competences evaluation
Ensenyament universitari
Motivació en l'educació
Aptitud -- Ensenyament
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
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spelling A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivationSánchez-Carmona, AdriánRobles, SergiPons, JordiMotivation in education--Study and teachingLearning ability Study and teachingGamificationMeritsLeaderboardsSkillsCompetences evaluationEnsenyament universitariMotivació en l'educacióAptitud -- EnsenyamentÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitariÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docentsThe students' lack of motivation is a usual problem. The students value more the obtention of the degree than the developing of competences and skills. In order to fight this, we developed a gamification's experience based on merits and leaderboards. The merits are linked to the attainment of skills and competences that students usually do not appreciate. During the year 2016, we are carrying out a pilot involving 950 students at the Graduate of Engineering in Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)Peer ReviewedOmniaScience20172017-06-0120172017-06-22journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/105728reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1057282026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
title A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
spellingShingle A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián
Motivation in education--Study and teaching
Learning ability Study and teaching
Gamification
Merits
Leaderboards
Skills
Competences evaluation
Ensenyament universitari
Motivació en l'educació
Aptitud -- Ensenyament
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
title_short A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
title_full A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
title_fullStr A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
title_full_unstemmed A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
title_sort A gamification experience to improve engineering students' performance through motivation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián
Robles, Sergi
Pons, Jordi
author Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián
author_facet Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián
Robles, Sergi
Pons, Jordi
author_role author
author2 Robles, Sergi
Pons, Jordi
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Motivation in education--Study and teaching
Learning ability Study and teaching
Gamification
Merits
Leaderboards
Skills
Competences evaluation
Ensenyament universitari
Motivació en l'educació
Aptitud -- Ensenyament
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
topic Motivation in education--Study and teaching
Learning ability Study and teaching
Gamification
Merits
Leaderboards
Skills
Competences evaluation
Ensenyament universitari
Motivació en l'educació
Aptitud -- Ensenyament
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
description The students' lack of motivation is a usual problem. The students value more the obtention of the degree than the developing of competences and skills. In order to fight this, we developed a gamification's experience based on merits and leaderboards. The merits are linked to the attainment of skills and competences that students usually do not appreciate. During the year 2016, we are carrying out a pilot involving 950 students at the Graduate of Engineering in Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
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