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Potentials of Gamification in Learning Management Systems: A Qualitative Evaluation

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Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World (EC-TEL 2015)

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Besides game-based learning, gamification is an upcoming trend in education, studied in various empirical studies and found in many major learning management systems. Employing a newly developed qualitative instrument for assessing gamification in a system, we studied five popular LMS for their specific implementations. The instrument enabled experts to extract affordances for gamification in the five categories experiential, mechanics, rewards, goals, and social. Results show large similarities in all of the systems studied and few varieties in approaches to gamification.

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  1. Institute for Information Management Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jan Broer & Andreas Breiter

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  1. University of Bath Spa, Bath, UK

    Gráinne Conole

  2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Tomaž Klobučar

  3. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Christoph Rensing

  4. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Johannes Konert

  5. IAE Lyon, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France

    Elise Lavoué

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Broer, J., Breiter, A. (2015). Potentials of Gamification in Learning Management Systems: A Qualitative Evaluation. In: Conole, G., Klobučar, T., Rensing, C., Konert, J., Lavoué, E. (eds) Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World. EC-TEL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_29

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