RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 GamiTool: Supporting Instructors in the Gamification of MOOCs
A1 Ortega-Arranz, Alejandro
A1 Asensio Pérez, Juan Ignacio
A1 Martínez Monés, Alejandra
A1 Bote Lorenzo, Miguel Luis
A1 Ortega Arranz, Héctor
A1 Kalz, Marco
K1 Gamification
K1 instructors
K1 MOOCs
K1 rewards
K1 system
K1 workload
K1 5801 Teoría y Métodos Educativos
K1 1203.17 Informática
AB Reward-based gamification strategies are proposed as a promising technique to increase student engagement in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), following its success in other small-scale educational settings. However, these strategies imply a number of orchestration tasks (e.g., design, management) that are usually carried out by instructors, and which may hinder their use and adoption. Furthermore, some MOOC distinctive features (e.g., scale, 24/7 availability, etc.) have considerable implications on how these gamification strategies are orchestrated, resulting in an unmanageable instructors’ workload in cases of manual operation. Therefore, an eventual adoption of gamification in MOOCs calls for automatic systems capable of decreasing the additional workload of instructors. The limitations identified in the current solutions (e.g., non-usable graphical interfaces, inflexible gamification designs) led us to propose and develop a new gamification system named GamiTool. An evaluation with 19 MOOC instructors and gamification designers showed the high design expressiveness, usability and potential for adoption of GamiTool. Hence, GamiTool can be used by instructors to improve students’ engagement, and also, by researchers to keep understanding the effects of gamification in MOOC settings.
PB IEEE
SN 2169-3536
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73751
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73751
LA eng
NO IEEE Access, diciembre 2022, vol. 10,  p. 131965 - 131979
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 05-feb-2025