Integrating Game Mechanics In
Teaching
Even a Course can be Played
About me
Teacher: Beit Berl, HIT, Kibbutzim
Seminar, TAU.
PhD student: STS @ Bar Ilan
Founder of Jivy Group, Playful Shark
Advisor & Mentor for startups
Active & founding member in
GameIS
Blog: www.dudipeles.com
Mail: [email protected]
The next 20 minutes
Fun &
Gamification
Gamification
of my course
Theory of game
design for teachers
Questions
Fun & Gamification
Games are fun
For the past 40 years
game designers
turned fun making
into science
Some of the most popular games of
our time
Fun and theme are not correlated
(Game based marketing - Gabe Zichermann)
Gamification
The concept that you can apply the
basic elements that make games
fun and engaging to things that
typically aren't considered fun
Clarification - What’s not Gamification
Games
Playful Design
Theory of game design for
teachers
Video games research can help teachers
When we have fun we learn better
We need to change the way we think
Our job is not only to teach, but to
make students have fun
Design a course like it was a game
Why do people enjoy games ?
Achiever
Explorer
Socializer
Killer
Dudi: EAKS: E 73%, A 60%, K 40%, S 27%
Bartle’s Test
What is fun in a course?
For Explorers, Getting exposed to
new knowledge. For Achievers,
Getting an A (only at the end). Not
much fun for Achievers, no fun at
all for Socializers and Killers ?
The psychology of optimal experience
Anxiety
FLOW
Difficulty
Boredom
Skill / Time
The difficulty level is more important then chronologic order
Use game mechanics in class
My Gamification Experience
Video games design and development
program in Bait Berl, active since 2005
Introduction to video games
programming
Introduction to video games
programming
Designed as a game
• Think of students more motivation:
– “if you finish the exercise you can go help your
friends”
– “you need to hand a prefect exercise to beat X”
• Keep students in “flow”
– An exercise each lesson
– Teaching “Arrays” at lesson 8.
Introduction to video games
programming
Introduction to video games
programming
Introduction to video games
programming
Was it worth it ?
Students Emersion First 9 Lessons:
Attendance: 80% -> 100%
Exercise submitting: 74% -> 98%
Students Emersion Full Course:
Attendance: 68% -> 98%
Exercise submitting: 44%* -> 86%
Student Mail Interaction: 500% raise
* Students needed to submit only 70%, which turns the 44% to 63%
Was it more fun ?
When asked to pick the 3 most fun
courses out of 14, 50% of the students
chose the programming course !
Questions?
If you don’t feel like asking now send
me a mail: [email protected]
More about Gamification
http://gamification.co/
http://gamification.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
Books
Videos
Thank you
For any question just mail me:
[email protected]