Student engagement is important. Some evidence suggests that retention and persistence in online programs can be linked to student engagement. The need to focus on student engagement in online courses may be especially significant as …
An 2.0 version of this tools is available in a newer post. Introduction Gamification: “the use of game mechanics …
TechTeach University of Illinois at Chicago Nov 7, 2015. Building Student Success: Gameful Thinking to Inspire Learning The conference …
Gamification and gameful thinking are different. Lee and Doh (2012) suggest that gamification should be defined more narrowly to include …
One of trepidations that students carry into introductory STEM courses is that the learning will be hard, perhaps too hard. …
Annotated Bibliography Aguilar, S., Holman, C., & Fishman, B. (2013). Leveling-Up: Evolving Game-Inspired University Course Design (pp. 46–52). Presented at …
College courses are like games in that we have rules, challenges, scores, academic fair play. Competition is often encouraged for …
When students use checklists as a way to track school tasks they apply gameful approach. They track their progress and …
Grounded Theory is a systematic generation of theory from systematic research (Padgett, 2004). The purpose of this Grounded Theory study …
Unlike the quantitative research, which is interested in testing a hypotheses and statistical generalizations, qualitative approach focuses on understanding the …
