Paper Info
Title
Measuring the effects on learning performance and engagement with a gamified social platform in an MSc program.
Abstract
New generations of students are highly involved with technology. Therefore, while coming to traditional classrooms, it is required to call for different forms of teaching that are more motivating and engaging for them. One approach to this problem is combining games and education. Gamification could be defined as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. The research gap in the literature could be found in requiring more experimental studies assessing if gamification can improve learning outcomes. To this end, this paper further contributes to determining if a gamified social e-learning platform can improve the learning performance and engagement of MSc students. The developed platform combined submission of activities with points, achievements, leaderboards, and rewards (with a virtual store) and social elements such as friends, forums, Q&A, blogs, and microblogging. Results show that, indeed, social gamification is a suitable technique to improve the learning outcome of students, at least for those skills related to programming, providing more communication skills and producing more engagement and motivation while using the platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/cae.22186
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
education,engagement,gamification,learning performance,social
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Social platform
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28.0
1.0
1061-3773
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Garcia13511.13
Eva García-Lopez2225.53
Sergio Caro-Alvaro300.34
Jose-Maria Gutierrez-Martinez400.34
Luis de Marcos511216.95