Evaluating Gamification Projects in Education: A Review of the Current Research

• In Event: RTD - Gamification

Short Description

Review of research projects in varied learning designs is important to move these projects into the educational mainstream. In this paper, we provide a review of studies that investigated gamification in the last decade. To better understand the direction of gamification in higher education, we provide an analysis and summary of the current research based in this specific context. Areas were reviewed; descriptive features and outcomes of the studies, types of assessment used, and research methodology used. Results will be discussed.

Authors

• Aysegul Gok

• Mete Akcaoglu, Georgia Southern University

• Brendan Calandra, Georgia State University