Gaming and Gamification

Mallon, Melissa

doi:10.1080/15228959.2013.815502

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“…Some influential observers have essentially equated the push to use Open Badges in educational settings with the movement toward CBE (e.g., Afterschool Alliance, 2015; American Council on Education, 2016; Blackburn et al, 2016;Duncan, 2011). Likewise, proponents of gamification have pointed out obvious connections with digital badges (e.g., Buckingham, 2014;Mallon, 2013;Metzger et al, 2016).…”

Section: Badge Design Principles Derived From Comparing Types Of Badgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Digital Badges and Reward Structures

Hickey¹,

Schenke²

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning

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In recent years, web-enabled credentials for learning have emerged, primarily in the form of Open Badges. These new credentials can contain specific claims about competency, evidence supporting those claims, links to student work, and traces of engagement. Moreover, these credentials can be annotated, curated, shared, discussed, and endorsed over digital networks, which can provide additional meaning. However, digital badges have also reignited the simmering debate over rewards for learning. This is because they have been used by some and characterized by many as inherently "extrinsic" motivators. Our chapter considers this debate in light of a study that traced the development and evolution of 30 new Open Badge systems. Seven arguments are articulated: (1) digital badges are inherently more meaningful than grades and other credentials; (2) circulation in digital networks makes Open Badges particularly meaningful; (3) Open Badges are particularly consequential credentials; (4) the negative consequences of extrinsic rewards are overstated; (5) consideration of motivation and badges should focus primarily on social activity and secondarily on individual behavior and cognition; (6) situative models of engagement are ideal for studying digital credentials; and (7) the motivational impact of digital credentials should be studied across increasingly formal "levels." Digital badges are a new kind of learning credential that can contain hyperlinks that provide easy access to relevant web-enabled information. In contrast to grades and degrees, digital badges can contain specific claims about competencies, details about how those competencies were acquired, and links to evidence such as completed work and traces of engagement. Recognizing

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Section: Badge Design Principles Derived From Comparing Types Of Badgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Digital Badges and Reward Structures

Hickey¹,

Schenke²

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning

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“…22 Melissa Mallon offered summaries of nine games produced for higher education, several of which were specifically created for use by academic libraries. 23 Many of these online library games reviewed used Flash, or required players to download the game before playing. By contrast, J.…”

Section: Gamification Use In Librariesmentioning

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Applying Gamification to the Library Orientation

Reed

Miller

2020

ITAL

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By providing an overview of library services as well as the building layout, the library orientation can help newcomers make optimal use of the library. The benefits of this outreach can be curtailed, however, by the significant staffing required to offer in-person tours. One academic library overcame this issue by turning to user experience research and gamification to provide an individualized online library orientation for four specific user groups: undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and community members. The library surveyed 167 users to investigate preferences regarding orientation format, as well as likelihood of future library use as a result of the gamified orientation format. Results demonstrated a preference for the gamified experience among undergraduate students as compared to other surveyed groups.

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“…It is likely that the use of this transformational engagement-medium will expand as citizens are increasingly exposed to such practices in their everyday lives, through the widespread use of mobile telephone apps and games, and activity monitors such as fitness trackers. Mallon [48] draws parallels with the application of gamification techniques across a number of sectors, including higher education, and claims that the use of digital games is almost 'ubiquitous' in social media. Smart meters and energy apps have been introduced to monitor home energy use [25,27], they offer the potential to moderate citizens' behaviour, the results of which could be reduced fuel costs, and an environmental benefit in terms of a 'feel-good factor' through acting sustainably [60].…”

Section: Incentivisation and Gamificationmentioning

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Smart governance: Opportunities for technologically-mediated citizen co-production

Webster¹,

Leleux²

2018

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Citizens increasingly contribute directly to the evolution of sustainable cities, in particular where new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) promise to transform urban governance into 'Smart city governance' and where ICTs are integrated in strategies for citizen participation and the co-production of public services and policy. This article provides a multidisciplinary understanding of Smart city governance, including new insights around the opportunities for citizen engagement in the co-production of service-delivery and decisionmaking. Using findings from a review of Smart cities literature and practice, the article aims to establish the breadth of Smart city initiatives which emphasise citizen participation and the realities of delivering such initiatives in complex city environments. Emphasising the emerging role of the technologically 'empowered' citizen, a new conceptual model is presented, where mutual trust, shared understanding and new opportunities for co-production emerge in an environment mediated by new technology-this form of Smart governance is referred to here as 'technologically-mediated municipal reciprocity'.

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Gaming and Gamification

Cited by 19 publications

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Open Digital Badges and Reward Structures

Open Digital Badges and Reward Structures

Applying Gamification to the Library Orientation

Smart governance: Opportunities for technologically-mediated citizen co-production

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