I am currently running a foundation Business Information Systems course using a
blend of TBL and Gamification. We're only 3 weeks into semester and it is
definitely an "alpha release" version, which the students understand, and seem
to be running with, despite the majority NOT being gamers in their private
lives.
300+ first semester, first year students divided into 3 interactive seminars in
a team-design computer lab (8-at-a-table, 144-seater). So far, so good.
I am also currently engaged in writing a theoretical paper about the pedagogy
behind the blend of TBL & Gamification to meet current student engagement
issues. A praxis based research paper is a little more challenging, since I
always have a terrible time researching my own teaching and separating out
research rigour and teaching innovation. This time, I have recruited a colleague
from Education who is observing and monitoring everything I'm doing, and will
apply a fundamentally ethnographic research design including focus groups and
interviews with my teaching team and with the students. So I'll have some
genuinely rigorous feedback on how Gamification overlaid on TBL works later in
the year. Early days yet.
In the meantime, if anyone's interested in some of the issues and mechanics for
applying it themselves,
[1] read Lee Sheldon (2012) The Multiplayer Classroom (Cengage) and
[2] watch Portnow, Floyd & Theus (2011) 'Extra Credit': Season 2 Episode 15
'Gamifying Education' http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education.
and
[3] feel free to contact me. Happy to share what I've learned so far.
Cate
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Cate Jerram, PhD
University of Adelaide Business School
13.57 / Nexus 10
Adelaide SA 5005
Ph: +618 8313 4757
Quoting "Sweet, Michael S" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Friends,
>
> “Gamification” (that is, applying game--‐driven
> structures and incentives to learning) is listed as one of the forces on the
> horizon that is bound to continue “disrupting” traditional
> postsecondary educational formats.
>
> Is anyone in the TBL community a game-theory ninja?
>
> Have the linkages between TBL practices and the “serious
> gaming” movement been explored?
>
> FYI, my question was stimulated by this article:
>
> The Evolving University: Disruptive Change And Institutional Innovation
> http://c21u.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/u21/C21U%20Paper%2022012Final.pdf
>
> -M
>
>
> Michael Sweet, Ph.D.
> Director of Instructional Development, Center for Teaching and Learning
> MAI 2206 | Mail Stop G2100 | (512) 232-1775 | http://ctl.utexas.edu
>
>
>
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