“…In a number of studies that utilised a competitive game-based approach in a hybrid setting, participants reported that their motivation and engagement had improved (Aşıksoy, 2018;Rojas-López et al, 2019;Wang, 2017;Zainuddin, 2018, Tsay et al, 2020 along with, their reasoning skills (Zainuddin, 2018), IT competencies and learning capacity (Zainuddin, 2018;Huesca Juárez & Medina Herrera, 2019). Furthermore, participants reported that the approach promoted exchange of ideas, discussion, social learning (Aşıksoy, 2018;Wang, 2017) and completion of challenges (Rojas-López et al, 2019).…”