Technological Aspects of the Gamification Model for e-Learning Participant's Engagement

Gudonienė, Daina; Bartkutė, Reda; Rutkauskiene, Danguole; Blažauskas, Tomas

doi:10.22364/bjmc.2016.4.4.25

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“…Studies on gamified e-learning revealed that gamification had a positive impact, increasing students' levels of motivation (e.g., Aleksic ́-Maslac ́et al, 2018; Hamzah et al, 2015;Hassan et al, 2021;Kaufmann, 2018;Monterrat et al, 2014;Shi et al, 2013). The findings also showed an increase in students' levels of engagement with the lessons (e.g., Bouchrika et al, 2021;Gudoniene et al, 2016;Katsigiannakis & Karagiannidis, 2017;Mohamad et al, 2017;Muntean, 2011;Poondej & Lerdpornkulrat, 2019;Rutkauskiene et al, 2016;Wongso et al, 2014).…”

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“…In addition, some researchers studying teaching programming in e-learning environments presented theoretical frameworks for the inclusion of gamification in teaching, while others conducted studies to demonstrate how gamification can be used to overcome problems related to low levels of engagement, which is one of the main problems associated with e-learning. (e.g., Bernik et al, 2017;Gafni et al, 2018;Gudoniene et al, 2016;Piteira & Costa, 2017;Schatten & Schatten, 2019;Swacha & Baszuro, 2013).…”

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Gamification in Education: Why, Where, When, and How?—A Systematic Review

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Games and Culture

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Defined as the utilization of game elements in nongame environments, gamification has been frequently used in education in recent years. The aim of the present study is to summarize the studies previously conducted on the use of gamification in education through a systematic literature review. When the studies conducted in 2000–2021 were examined, four main dimensions came to the fore: (i) the aim of gamification studies, (ii) the learning fields where gamification studies were carried out, (iii) the level of education at which gamification studies were carried out, and (iv) how gamification was integrated into the learning environment. The results showed that gamification is used for various educational purposes, at many learning levels in various environments, and in a wide variety of learning fields. In most of the studies, the positive effects of gamification and its potential to solve problems in education were reported.

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Gamification in Education: Why, Where, When, and How?—A Systematic Review

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“…For example, the ability to catch a Pokémon in a game is an abstraction of a larger probability equation. Therefore, games have often been leveraged for learning [40]. There is an abundance of support for educational games, serious games, and gamification [36,41,42]; these games and apps aim to computerize aspects of existing evidence-based therapies.…”

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Designing a Serious Game (Above Water) for Stigma Reduction Surrounding Mental Health: Semistructured Interview Study With Expert Participants (Preprint)

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Eskandari³

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BACKGROUND While in many contexts unsuccessful games targeting learning, social interaction, or behavioural change have few downsides, when covering a sensitive domain such as mental health, care must be taken to avoid harm and stigmatization of people who live with mental health conditions. As a result, evaluation of the game to identify benefits and risks is crucial in understanding the game's success; however, assessment of these applications is often compared to the 'non-game' control condition, resulting in findings specifically regarding entertainment value and user preferences. Research exploring the design process, integrating field experts, and guidelines for designing a successful serious game for sensitive topics is limited. OBJECTIVE Our paper seeks to understand which elements of game design can guide a designer when designing a game for sensitive topics. METHODS To carefully probe the design space of serious games for mental health, we present Above Water, a game targeting the reduction of stigma surrounding mental health, now in its second iteration. This game serves as a research probe to understand the design and evaluation of games in the area of mental health by soliciting expert feedback from experts in domains related to Mental Health and Wellness, Game Design and User Experience (UX). RESULTS By using this deployment as a research probe to gather assessments by domain experts, this paper contributes to a better understanding of how to design specialized games to address sensitive topics. CONCLUSIONS The main contribution of the presented paper is a set of the guidelines for designing games for sensitive subjects. For each guideline, we present an example of how to apply the finding to the sample game (Above Water). Furthermore, we demonstrate the generalizability to other sensitive topics by providing an additional example of a game that could be designed with the presented guidelines. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

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“…For example, the ability to catch a Pokémon in a game is an abstraction of a larger probability equation. Therefore, games have often been leveraged for learning [ 40 ]. There is an abundance of support for educational games, serious games, and gamification [ 36 , 41 , 42 ]; these games and apps aim to computerize aspects of existing evidence-based therapies.…”

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Designing a Serious Game (Above Water) for Stigma Reduction Surrounding Mental Health: Semistructured Interview Study With Expert Participants

Wehbe¹,

Whaley²,

Eskandari³

et al. 2022

JMIR Serious Games

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Background Although in many contexts unsuccessful games targeting learning, social interaction, or behavioral change have few downsides, when covering a sensitive domain such as mental health (MH), care must be taken to avoid harm and stigmatization of people who live with MH conditions. As a result, evaluation of the game to identify benefits and risks is crucial in understanding the game’s success; however, assessment of these apps is often compared with the nongame control condition, resulting in findings specifically regarding entertainment value and user preferences. Research exploring the design process, integrating field experts, and guidelines for designing a successful serious game for sensitive topics is limited. Objective The aim of this study is to understand which elements of game design can guide a designer when designing a game for sensitive topics. Methods To carefully probe the design space of serious games for MH, we present Above Water (AbW), a game targeting the reduction of stigma surrounding MH, now in its second iteration. The game, AbW, serves as a consistent research probe to solicit expert feedback. Experts were recruited from a range of topic domains related to MH and wellness, game design, and user experience. Results By using this deployment as a research probe, this study demonstrates how to synthesize gained insights from multiple expert perspectives and create actionable guidelines for successful design of serious games targeting sensitive topics. Conclusions Our work contributes to a better understanding of how to design specialized games to address sensitive topics. We present a set of guidelines for designing games for sensitive subjects, and for each guideline, we present an example of how to apply the finding to the sample game (AbW). Furthermore, we demonstrate the generalizability to other sensitive topics by providing an additional example of a game that could be designed with the presented guidelines.

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Technological Aspects of the Gamification Model for e-Learning Participant's Engagement

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Gamification in Education: Why, Where, When, and How?—A Systematic Review

Gamification in Education: Why, Where, When, and How?—A Systematic Review

Designing a Serious Game (Above Water) for Stigma Reduction Surrounding Mental Health: Semistructured Interview Study With Expert Participants (Preprint)

Designing a Serious Game (Above Water) for Stigma Reduction Surrounding Mental Health: Semistructured Interview Study With Expert Participants

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