Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App

Matthias Feldotto; Thomas John; Dennis Kundisch; Paul Hemsen; Katrin Klingsieck; Alexander Skopalik

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_32

Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App

Matthias Feldotto, Thomas John, Dennis Kundisch, Paul Hemsen, Katrin Klingsieck, Alexander Skopalik

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Abstract

Many university students struggle with motivational problems, and gamification has the potential to address these problems. However, gamification is hardly used in education, because current approaches to gamification require instructors to engage in the time-consuming preparation of their course contents for use in quizzes, mini-games and the like. Drawing on research on limited attention and present bias, we propose a “lean” approach to gamification, which relies on gamifying learning activities (rather than learning contents) and increasing their salience. In this paper, we present the app StudyNow that implements such a lean gamification approach. With this app, we aim to enable more students and instructors to benefit from the advantages of gamification.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Designing the Digital Transformation
Subtitle of host publication	12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Alexander Maedche, Jan vom Brocke, Alan Hevner
Pages	462-467
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-59144-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_32
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information System and Technology 2017 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 30 May 2017 → 1 Jun 2017 Conference number: 12 http://desrist2017.kit.edu/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	10243

Conference

Conference	12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information System and Technology 2017
Abbreviated title	DESRIST 2017
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Karlsruhe
Period	30/05/17 → 1/06/17
Internet address	http://desrist2017.kit.edu/

Keywords

Gamification
Limited attention
Present bias
Mobile app
Education

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Feldotto, M., John, T., Kundisch, D., Hemsen, P., Klingsieck, K., & Skopalik, A. (2017). Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App. In A. Maedche, J. vom Brocke, & A. Hevner (Eds.), Designing the Digital Transformation: 12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings (pp. 462-467). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10243). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_32

Feldotto, Matthias ; John, Thomas ; Kundisch, Dennis et al. / Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App. Designing the Digital Transformation: 12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings. editor / Alexander Maedche ; Jan vom Brocke ; Alan Hevner. 2017. pp. 462-467 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Feldotto, M, John, T, Kundisch, D, Hemsen, P, Klingsieck, K & Skopalik, A 2017, Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App. in A Maedche, J vom Brocke & A Hevner (eds), Designing the Digital Transformation: 12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10243, pp. 462-467, 12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information System and Technology 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_32

Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App. / Feldotto, Matthias; John, Thomas; Kundisch, Dennis et al.

Designing the Digital Transformation: 12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Alexander Maedche; Jan vom Brocke; Alan Hevner. 2017. p. 462-467 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10243).

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Feldotto M, John T, Kundisch D, Hemsen P, Klingsieck K, Skopalik A. Making Gamification Easy for the Professor: Decoupling Game and Content with the StudyNow Mobile App. In Maedche A, vom Brocke J, Hevner A, editors, Designing the Digital Transformation: 12th International Conference, DESRIST 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings. 2017. p. 462-467. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_32

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