Game On!

Gamification, Gameful Design, and the Rise of the Gamer Educator

Kevin Bell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2018
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-2396-8 (ISBN)

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The changing student body in American higher education demands a new approach to teaching, one that moves toward inclusive, hyperpersonalized learning environments that have much in common with games and social media. Kevin Bell's Game On! presents dynamic case studies of gamer educators and game-derived techniques to help instructors creatively formulate their own teaching strategies. Breaking gamefully designed classes into their component parts, Bell analyzes what these classes are actually doing and explains why they work. He offers faculty a rubric to assess their own courses for their propensity to engage students, particularly those from low socioeconomic and high-risk populations. Bell explores how game design, pedagogy, and intrinsic motivators can level the playing field to produce rigorous learning environments that are as addictive to all participants as the latest apps and social media systems. He also discusses best practices, lays out the broader context of computer-mediated teaching and learning, and considers the challenges and opportunities that gamification presents.
Instructors would do well to consider the key tenets of successful games if they are to engage and graduate the coming generations of learners. Bell's careful analysis of the theories behind gamification, cognitive science, and instructional design will help them to do just that.

Kevin Bell is the pro-vice chancellor of digital futures at Western Sydney University in Australia.

Acknowledgments
Prologue. Ashton to Apple
1. A Societal Imperative
2. How Did We Get Here?
3. The Fairy Tale MOOC
4. The Hero’s Journey
5. Ethical Decision Making
6. Dungeons and Discourse
7. Threat of Crime and Terrorism
8. Assessing Gamification
9. Catching Fire
Captain’s Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
Zusatzinfo	6 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4214-2396-0 / 1421423960
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-2396-8 / 9781421423968
Zustand	Neuware