Gamification: a new key for enhancing engagement in MOOCs on energy?
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Gamification: a new key for enhancing engagement in MOOCs on energy? Elvira G. Rincón-Flores1
· Juanjo Mena2,3 · María Soledad Ramírez Montoya1
Received: 2 November 2019 / Accepted: 28 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Gamification is an innovative educational strategy that uses elements of games for educational purposes, including the completion of appealing challenges to increase student levels of engagement and learning. The objective of this research is to assess the effects of gamification as a teaching method used in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about clean and conventional energy. This research is part of the project “Laboratorio Binacional para la Gestión Inteligente de la Sustentabilidad Energética y la Formación Tecnológica” [Binational Laboratory for the Intelligent Management of Sustainable Energy and Technological Formation]. A total of 4819 participants enrolled in the course, 621 passed the course, and 647 completed the gamified challenge. Results show the impact of gamification on the cognitive, social, and emotional dimensions, where more than 90% of the participants agreed about feeling more motivated and challenged than when using traditional teaching methods. Therefore, the use of this methodology in online teaching could be very impactful in personalizing and enhancing the learning opportunities of massive, open online courses. Keywords Gamification · XMOOC · Engagement · Educational innovation · Higher education
1 Introduction A major concern of society worldwide is the issue of energy and its sustainability. Like any biological organism, nations require this element to live, develop, and grow. Given this fact, there have been growing technological developments Juanjo Mena is an associate professor in the Department of Education at the University of Salamanca (Spain). His research focusses on mentoring and practicums, teacher education, and information and communications technology. His work on this article was performed according to the Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University.
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Elvira G. Rincón-Flores [email protected] Juanjo Mena [email protected] María Soledad Ramírez Montoya [email protected]
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Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av E Garza Sada 2501, 64849 Monterrey, NL, Mexico
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Department of Education, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Institute of Psychology and Education, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
in recent decades, supporting the conversion of the use of conventional energy to clean and sustainable energy [1–4]. At the same time, there has been a need to make the teaching and training about issues of sustainable energy accessible. Therefore, in 2016, Mexico started the project “Binational Laboratory for the Intelligent Management of Sustainable Energy and Technological Formation” (Project 266632/Agreement: S0019-2014¬01) with the objective of supporting the implementation of the Mexico Energy Reform to create a competitive world-class industry. I
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