Gamification in Education

What is gamification?

• the act of playing games

• the methods in designing a game

• the use of game design elements and game mechanics in non-game contexts

• the specific way in which players interact with a game

Which is NOT included in the experimental design (game)?

• Rules

• Feedback

• Goals

• Winner

What are the elements of effective gamification? Choose all that apply.

• Experience points (XP) as it allows students to monitor their progress.

• Students should know the explicit path that they have to follow.

• Levels (rewards)

• Storyline (which gives all the objectives a context)

What does the expert say about feedback in gamification? Choose all that apply.

• No death and also no rewards until a student achieves an objective or a sub-objective.

• An achieving student might not get the reward if he or she has done the bare minimum.

• Rewarding effort instead of achievement is crucial.

• Differentiation is easy to build into the classroom thanks to the flipped classroom model.

Which of the following learning content focuses on focus on acquisition of

learning tools?

• Traditional Learning Content

• 21st century learning content

Gamification Purpose is

• Motivate & engage only

• please player

• Defined Learning Outcome

• All of them

Collection of tasks with points or Some form of reward 

• Game

• Game based learning

• Activity

• Gamification

Gamification is simply adding game mechanics, such as experience points, leveling up, rewards, etc. to a classroom.

• True

• False

Gamification will require me to change everything about my classroom.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Which of the below is NOT a word you would use in your classroom if you are gamifying your whole classroom?

• Quest

• Guilds

• XP

• Groups