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​ Gamification

What is gamification?

​Game design elements in an educational settings

Game-based learning - boom over the past 10 years​

• companies sign on it

• hot new business concept, buzzword​

​paper-and-pencil training manual vs computer game

​Evidence-based?

Popularity

​Games perceived positively and can improve attention and motivation of the trained people.

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Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education. Sanchez D.R., Clifton A.L., 2022

• knowledge

• felt more confident

• more engaged

​Li et al., 2017

Multiple Choice

Deloitte reported significant amount of time saved when training staff.

How much?

• about 25%

• about 50%

• about 75%

New educational paradigm?

​Gamification as a product of a neglected history

of pedagogical improvement, a history of training

which is EFFECTIVE but largely IGNORED.

Tulloch, R. 2014​

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​Instructive paradigm

(passive, linear)​

​Teaching based on game concepts

Multiple Choice

Gamification counts on a desired state of mind where students are FULLY engaged in the activity. What do we call it?

• mind blow

• stream

• flow

• state alfa

​-Rowan Tulloch

''Gamification is always about pedagogy whether you create obedient workers, healthy citizens or knowledgeable students.''

Poll

Tulloch claims that the goal of gamification is to shape subjects and subjectivities.

Do you agree?

• yes

• partly yes

• no

• I don't know

History - where did it all start?

​1912 toy surprise in peanut packets

1980's simple video games awareness of the learning potentials

2002 - SERIOUS GAMES initiative - games for military

gamification services were launched

History - where did it all start?

​2002 - a programmer and consultant Nick Peeling: "...electronic manufacturers should improve their products by building on the lessons from the games industry...."

2008 - Bret Terril from Zynga ​games: "....gamification is taking the game mechanics and apply it elsewhere to increase engagement...."

2011 - Gabe Zickermann ​- game systems to serve a business

objective - points, badges, levels, challenges, leaderboards ...

Can you recall any company which uses gamification incentives to increase their sales? Share you experience!

​What do you feel when collecting points, stamps or badges?

Poll

Do you collect points, badges, stamps, stickers, etc. until you reach/retrieve the reward/bonus?

• Yes, I always try my best to get the bonus

• Sometimes... I often collect them without reaching the final reward. Just for the feeling of collecting sth.

• If I know I cannot reach the bonus, I don't bother with collecting anything.

• I'm not into these marketing games at all!

​Critics of gamification

​exploitationware - to control players' behaviour

• are against gamification as a game-like (Bogust, I. 2012)

• points, levels,.. make game a game​

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Other critics: gamification games ≠​ points

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What do the critics call gamification?

Hint: starts with the letter E

What works for pedagogy?

​Kostner, R. (2003): "all the games are edutainment"

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​lively

​fun comes from th process of learning

​enhances the flow

​points, etc. train players

​full of fun elements

​points, levels

​lives, health

​time remaining

​numerical feedback

​real-time feedback

Multiple Select

What is the crucial mechanism in games that show progress?

Tick all the right answers.

• levels

• lives

• points

• health

• time remaining

​Gamification in classes

​Zichermann in TedX Talk: How games makes kids smarter (7:33)- ​

​- Ananth Pai replaced the standard curriculum with a video game based curriculum of his own design

​- in the space of 18 weeks, Mr. Pai's class went from a below-3rd-grade level in reading and math to a mid-4th-grade level

-​ learning is fun, and learning is multiplayer

Poll

Can games teach you faster?

• yes

• no

• I don't know

Thank you for your attention

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