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Game Play In Education: An Exploration Of The What, How, And Why, Carrin Lynn Blyth
Game Play In Education: An Exploration Of The What, How, And Why, Carrin Lynn Blyth
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
This study explored whether teachers utilize games in the classroom, known as gamification and, if so, whether they used games according to game theory that exists in the field of gaming and game design. In higher education and secondary environments, educators report that problems exist as far as student behavior and engagement. Many students do not want to learn. The literature review conducted as part of this study indicated that when teachers gamified their classrooms few empirical investigations were conducted in the K-12 setting; another shortcoming was a lack of a uniform classification system for game elements among the literature, …