A Gamified Virtual Learning Environment for Statistics Learning

Tenório, Marcos Mincov; Lopes, Ricardo; Góis, Lourival A.; Santos, Guataçara dos

doi:10.21125/inted.2018.1472

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“…Virtual Learning Environment aims primarily at increasing the students' involvement and, at the same time, allowing teachers to maintain and evaluate their development and provide immediate feedback [11]. The teachers' role is to manage course content and activities, registering exercises on the courses database that are later used as a part of the activity tests.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To offer a detailed understanding of gamification technique applied inside the VLE, this subsection briefly describes the selected elements and mechanics. Before, we need to acknowledge what contributes to the involvement and guidance of students through adequate learning pathway [11].…”

Section: Gamification Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This justified the development of a gamified virtual learning environment approach. An environment that enables students to perform educational activities and appeal to high engagement levels [11].…”

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The Experience of the Application of a Gamified Virtual Learning Environment in Higher Education

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ICERI2018 Proceedings

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Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) provide a way for students to access and interact with learning experiences and assume the responsibility for their own learning, overcoming passive attitudes of listening and memorizing content. In other words, VLEs should be developed to provide teaching and learning environments that allows students to assume an active role in the development of their own knowledge and to increase their involvement. This work describes an experience of the application of a gamified VLE for the development of nonpresential teaching and learning activities in the course of Statistics in a Management degree. To assess its impact, a quanti-qualitative methodology was used. Data was collected by four instruments: an online questionnaire with closed questions for students, an online questionnaire with open questions for students, a structured interview with the teacher, and instrumentation of the VLE to collect users' actions on the platform.Results suggest that both teacher and students consider that it is beneficial to use the VLE because of its ubiquity and flexibility. Both students and the teacher consider that using VLE is beneficial, although the adaptation to gamification elements and concepts is still a challenge. The involvement of the teacher and the articulation between the VLE and the pedagogical approach is of the utmost importance to foster the students' involvement in the teaching-learning process.

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Section: The Eclass Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gamification Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%