Description
Helping teachers take advantage of game design principles and intrinsic motivators to build more effective courses.
About the Author
Kevin Bell is the pro-vice chancellor of digital futures at Western Sydney University in Australia.
Reviews
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.
-University of British Columbia Library Bloggers
The intention of the book is to enable practitioners to gamify, explaining in concise but authoritative detail the nature of gamification concepts, and how they function in practice with established principles of pedagogy. However, this does not mean that Game On! is solely applicable to the 'inclass' practitioner. With quantitative elements as well, a focus on students' experiences, and bullet point summaries, gamification is viewed with the kind of practical big-picture thinking crucial to university and academic leadership when considering the risks and rewards of innovation and large-scale implementation.
-Errol Rivera, Ology: Review in Applied Sciences
Book Information
ISBN 9781421423968
Author Kevin Bell
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm