Gamification in education: Designing course for game designers Gamificación en educación: Diseñando un curso para diseñadores de juegos

This article explores how gamification can be applied to education to improve student motivation. An experience developed in a game design course, in which experience points, levels, badges and challenges were included, is presented to this end. The study took place during 2014 and 2015. To assess h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Contreras Espinoza, Ruth Sofia, Eguía Gómez, Jose Luis
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:español
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/112588
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/112588
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Course
game designers
gamification
higher education
motivation
Videojocs -- Disseny
Computer games--Design
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::So, imatge i multimèdia
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Sumario:This article explores how gamification can be applied to education to improve student motivation. An experience developed in a game design course, in which experience points, levels, badges and challenges were included, is presented to this end. The study took place during 2014 and 2015. To assess how gamification impacted the learning experience, a survey and subsequent interviews with the students were applied. Results show significant improvement in terms of attention to reference materials and proactivity They also suggest that this approach can help students score better.