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Challenge Accepted! Going Gameful To Develop Soft Skills, Laurie A. Sutch
Challenge Accepted! Going Gameful To Develop Soft Skills, Laurie A. Sutch
Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
Students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn are leveraging the connections among their learning and living experiences by reflecting in the online Talent Gateway, a “gameful learning” approach to career readiness. In this program, students earn points towards the (M)Talent distinction on their official transcript as they learn to recognize and articulate existing skills while also developing new skills required in today's workplace such as critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, digital literacy, and global fluency.
Hello, Are You There? Creating And Measuring Online Student Engagement, Kirsten Passyn
Hello, Are You There? Creating And Measuring Online Student Engagement, Kirsten Passyn
Atlantic Marketing Journal
Engaging students in an online environment is frustrating for faculty and a concern of administration. Faculty and students report lower levels of satisfaction and lower engagement in online versus face to face learning. Dropout rates in fully online courses are often two times higher than face to face courses. This research attempted to engage online students by embedding a gamification-based scavenger hunt in an online course. Engagement was measured using a combination of quantitative and qualitative measurements. Although the scavenger hunt didn't significantly engage low performing students, it did motivate and deepen top-performing students' engagement. Interestingly, qualitative-based engagement measures proved …