{"id":5868,"date":"2015-10-05T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2015-10-05T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:16:44","slug":"what-could-be-gained-if-every-course-at-your-school-were-gamified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/05\/what-could-be-gained-if-every-course-at-your-school-were-gamified\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Be Gained If Every Course at Your School Were Gamified?"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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What if all\u00a0instructors could\u00a0access the students’ badges (or other credentials). This could ultimately have far-reaching implications for how students earn credit, what kind of work they are required to do in their classes, and more.<\/p>\n

I once designed an inquiry-based intro to programming course<\/a> and in order to give my students as much freedom as possible I started by defining – in detail – what they needed to know at the end of the course. Then I created a big rubric spreadhseet<\/a> and that became how I tracked their progress.<\/p>\n

Aside from ego issues between departments and individual instructors (which are considerable, but not insurmountable) it would be possible to create an institution-wide system that does something similar. It’s all a mater of scale, really. We’d still teach courses, but those courses would now be defined with respect to a degree defined by competencies rather than by courses.<\/p>\n

This falls in line with what Charles Reigeluth<\/a> is talking about with his paradigm shift<\/a>. I’ve talked about how gamification fits in here<\/a>, and this idea seems to me like a natural evolution of that. While there are some things that are truly new in gamification, much of it isn’t, but it is a handy, unifying concept that brings together a bunch of design ideas that have been kicking about separately.<\/p>\n

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Until now.<\/p>\n

There are a whole host of ways that this can be implemented. I’ll talk more about those in other posts (when I’m not rushing to get ready for class).<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n

Katrin Becker (2004) Reconciling a Traditional Syllabus with an Inquiry-Based Introductory Course<\/a><\/strong> The Journal of Computing Science in Colleges Volume 20, Number 2, December 2004, pp 28-37 Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges<\/a> Northwest Conference, October 8-9 2004, Salem, Oregon<\/p>\n

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\"gamification\"If you are interested in following my course\u00a0journal, watch for the “Gamification 101” heading.<\/p>\n

Also, for more information on gamification, check out my website here.<\/a><\/p>\n