Creating Engaging Experiences in MOOCs through In-Course Redeemable Rewards

Alejandro Ortega-Arranz; Marco Kalz; Alejandra Martínez-Monés

doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363464

Creating Engaging Experiences in MOOCs through In-Course Redeemable Rewards

Alejandro Ortega-Arranz, Marco Kalz, Alejandra Martínez-Monés

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Gamification strategies have been proposed to mitigate student disengagement and dropouts in massive online environments, due to the positive results shown by these strategies at lower scales. Among various gamification strategies, redeemable rewards have been identified as an effective element to intrinsically motivate students and increase their engagement in educational settings, including MOOCs. Yet, effective design, implementation and enactment of this gamification strategy in MOOC contexts might face new challenges, given the unique characteristics of these learning settings such as massiveness. As an attempt to help teachers use redeemable rewards in MOOCs, this paper analyzes the characteristics of MOOCs that influence its integration and presents a proposal of a system supporting the design, implementation and enactment of such rewards. The envisioned system is illustrated by a scenario that describes the main features of this system for teachers and students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 17-20 April 2018, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1875-1882
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538629574
ISBN (Print)	9781538629581
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363464
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2018
Event	IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Duration: 17 Apr 2018 → 20 Apr 2018

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Conference	IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
Abbreviated title	EDUCON
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
Period	17/04/18 → 20/04/18

Keywords

Engagement
Gamification
MOOCs
Motivation
Rewards

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Ortega-Arranz, A, Kalz, M & Martínez-Monés, A 2018, Creating Engaging Experiences in MOOCs through In-Course Redeemable Rewards. in 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018) : Proceedings of a meeting held 17-20 April 2018, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. . IEEE, pp. 1875-1882, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 17/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363464

Creating Engaging Experiences in MOOCs through In-Course Redeemable Rewards. / Ortega-Arranz, Alejandro; Kalz, Marco; Martínez-Monés, Alejandra.
2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018) : Proceedings of a meeting held 17-20 April 2018, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. . IEEE, 2018. p. 1875-1882.

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