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Impact of Gamification, Games, and Game Elements in Education

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Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-2020)

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Educational studies usually correspond to routine teaching methods and textbook literature. Although as an essential process of making learning effective and exciting for students, it is considered that the classroom courses must involve interactive activities. Implementation of such interactive methods can be achieved by fusing playful classroom games, engaging the students with use of the latest methodologies, engaging the students with high enticement can make the course learning more interesting. In this new era of technology, games have grown prevalent in today’s media. Besides games, gamification is another trending technology in education, workplaces, business, etc. Gamification extends a simple way to motivate and promote learning and facilitate the development of sustainable life skills helping students to increase engagement in the learning process with creativity and imagination. Game elements in the form of game mechanics and dynamics act as motivators to achieve the desired goals. The findings in the educational contexts on the efficacy of gamification and game elements of this research achieved till date are concluded as carefully promising.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

    Kavisha Duggal & Parminder Singh

  2. Lovely Faculty of Technology and Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

    Lovi Raj Gupta

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India

    Pradeep Kumar Singh

  2. Wroclaw University of Economics, Jan Wyzykowski University in Polkowice, Polkowice, Poland

    Zdzislaw Polkowski

  3. Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Sudeep Tanwar

  4. ITS Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, India

    Sunil Kumar Pandey

  5. Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Gheorghe Matei

  6. University of Pitesti, Pitesti, Romania

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Duggal, K., Singh, P., Gupta, L.R. (2021). Impact of Gamification, Games, and Game Elements in Education. In: Singh, P.K., Polkowski, Z., Tanwar, S., Pandey, S.K., Matei, G., Pirvu, D. (eds) Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-2020). Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66218-9_23

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