| Name: | Description: | Size: | Format: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 486.43 KB | Adobe PDF |
Advisor(s)
Abstract(s)
Nowadays the use of the information and communication technologies (ICT) is more and more
common in the learning and teaching process. Modern forms of education have risen and these
require the implementation of new learning paradigms: situated cognition, student-centred learning,
distributed cognition, constructivism, and communities of practice, among others. However there is an
important problem that concerns educators, the lack of student motivation and engagement in
education, especially in the e-learning environment (Online Education, Online Courses), where the
motivation and the active role of students are definitely the key. Therefore, the interest of researchers
in the subject of gamification, which main pillars are motivation, progressiveness and instant feedback,
has increased. Furthermore, influence of gamification, depending on utilized components (challenge,
curiosity, competion, recognition, etc) may have different effects on students. Thus, there is a need of
deeper understanding of dependencies between engagement and implemented gamification
elements. The goal of such analysis could be personalization of an e-learning system based on a
model that enables management of gamification process individually for every student.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how gamification affects a Mathematics Online Course that
is using this model as a pedagogical strategy. It relates such strategy with active learning practices
and discusses its effectiveness, investigating how gamification can motivate students to participate
more deeply and even to change their self-concept as learners. Moreover, the learning analytics and
data analysis shows that implementation of the gamification components contributes to the
engagement of students in an e-learning environment, having a positive impact on the final grade.
Description
Keywords
Learning analytics e-Learning Student engagement Moodle Gamification