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Review of Gamified MOOC’s Impact Toward Learner’s Motivation in Learning Effectiveness Context

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have become a strong support for building a ubiquitous learning environment typically during Covid19 pandemic. Although more and more Internet users are willing to try MOOC, the problems corresponding to users’ free and autonomous learning are a poor learning experience, low long-term attractiveness to users, and low completion rate of courses. The fundamental reason is that online learning behaviour cannot be well motivated and maintained. A key design concept related to the MOOC is gamification design - the application of game design elements to non-gamification scenarios. Some MOOC has integrated different gamification method to attract users. However, the academic community’s attitude towards gamification still inconsistent, and even some studies believe that the level of user motivation in the gamified design condition will decrease. From the perspective of user information behaviour, this paper follows the logical route of “motivation-behaviour” and analyse the perceptual challenge and perceptual attention, learning results and cognitive user participation. From the MOOC context, this paper discusses the technical application factors that affect user behaviour and enriches the research direction in the field of information behaviour. Lastly, this study puts forward some development suggestions to MOOC operators to comprehensively improve the perception challenge and attention of MOOC users and enhance their learning effect.

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This research was partially supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Media and Game Innovation Centre of Excellence, Institute of Human Centered Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia through Malaysia Research University Network research grant (R.J130000.7809.4L870).

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    Mohd Shahrizal Sunar & Eg Su Goh

  3. School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Mohd Shahrizal Sunar & Eg Su Goh

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Tan, W.K., Sunar, M.S., Goh, E.S. (2022). Review of Gamified MOOC’s Impact Toward Learner’s Motivation in Learning Effectiveness Context. In: Lv, Z., Song, H. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99188-3_12

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