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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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