One of the basic challenges in distance education is motivational issues that distance learners encounter because of the factors such as separation in time and space from teachers, other learners, and learning sources. In an effort to minimize this drawback and increase learners' participation into learning processes by motivating distant learners, new approaches such as gamification have been integrated in distance education. Gamification is one of the
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