Effectiveness of Gamification in Supporting Team Activities in Online Courses

• In Event: ID - Developments in Gamification and AR/VR Courseware

Short Description

This session will benefit instructors who incorporate team activities in online courses. This mixed methods quasi-experimental study examined whether gamification techniques improved team building, communication, and collaboration among students in online courses. By comparing the experiences of students enrolled in two sections of the same course, we found that gamification of team activities increased the degree of agreement among team members about their cognitive learning, collaborative learning, and dialogue promotion and open communication in the course.

Authors

• Contributor: Shamila Janakiraman, Purdue University

• Contributor: Adrie Koehler, Purdue University