GamiTool: Towards actionable learning analytics using gamification

Abstract

Learning Analytics enable a better understanding of teaching and learning processes by identifying and monitoring indicators based on students’ activity. These same indicators can also be used by reward-based gamification strategies as conditions that students should satisfy to earn rewards, with the purpose of increasing their engagement with the learning contents and activities. Hence, gamification systems must enable the digital representation and interpretation of indicators based on students’ activity, similarly as learning analytics tools do. This position paper introduces GamiTool, a gamification system to support the design and the computer-interpretable representation of a wide variety of learning analyticsindicatorsthat can be configured by practitioners as gamification conditions. Additionally, the paper discusses five potential lines of work regarding joint research with GamiTool and LA.