Course Gamification Tools for Blackboard Learn
An 2.0 version of this tools is available in a newer post. Introduction Gamification: “the use of game mechanics …
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Video presentation: Gameful Thinking to Inspire Learning
TechTeach University of Illinois at Chicago Nov 7, 2015. Building Student Success: Gameful Thinking to Inspire Learning The conference …
Gamification and Gameful Thinking for Empathy and Inclusive Campus Culture
Gamification and gameful thinking are different. Lee and Doh (2012) suggest that gamification should be defined more narrowly to include …
Learning should be hard, hard as fun.
One of trepidations that students carry into introductory STEM courses is that the learning will be hard, perhaps too hard. …
Gamification for Edu – Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography Aguilar, S., Holman, C., & Fishman, B. (2013). Leveling-Up: Evolving Game-Inspired University Course Design (pp. 46–52). Presented at …
Courses are Games
College courses are like games in that we have rules, challenges, scores, academic fair play. Competition is often encouraged for …
Playing the Game of School Well
When students use checklists as a way to track school tasks they apply gameful approach. They track their progress and …
Why Grounded Theory is Good for Gamification
Grounded Theory is a systematic generation of theory from systematic research (Padgett, 2004). The purpose of this Grounded Theory study …
Why Case Studies are Needed in Course Gamification
Unlike the quantitative research, which is interested in testing a hypotheses and statistical generalizations, qualitative approach focuses on understanding the …
The Flow in Introductory College Courses
Advanced courses attract students who are already motivated to learn the subject matter. These students completed introductory courses and decided …
