ERIC Number: EJ1258988
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Enhancing Motivation to Learn in a Biology Laboratory Course through Gaming: A Design Case
David C. Owens; Cindi Smith-Walters; Angela T. Barlow
International Journal of Designs for Learning, v10 n1 p53-63 2019
In this design case, we describe our work to develop a gameful learning design for use in an introductory, undergraduate biology laboratory course for science majors. Our design team included three university-based mathematics and science educators and a biologist responsible for the management of curriculum and instruction in the course under study. The gameful learning design was employed during the four weeks of plant evolutionary life history instruction. Key challenges to the design and implementation of gameful learning included the adaptation of instruction from teacher-centered to student-centered and establishing novel learning conditions in the eight laboratory sections so as to determine the value of two different elements of game design, repeat-testing and leaderboard with badges.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Science Laboratories, Majors (Students), Science Instruction, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Design, Active Learning, Student Motivation, Teamwork, Recognition (Achievement), Cooperative Planning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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