Dartboard-like Leaderboard for Mapping Educator Career Competition in a Gamification System

Abstract

Gamification is an activity that models non-game systems by integrating game components into the system. Applying gamification to the higher education career system aims to bring an atmosphere of fair competition among educators in achieving higher career positions in their career journey. In the game environment, the atmosphere of the competition can be present through the leaderboards. However, traditional leaderboards usually rank the players' achievements linearly on a pile of pages, limiting the overall view of the map of competition between educators. This article introduces a new leaderboard using a dartboard-like model. Educator career transition paths were first defined as Mealy machines. The pathways are then visualized circularly using the proposed dartboard model so that the career paths of all educators can be seen effectively, and therefore, a map of competition between educators is also obtained. This helps career development management to make decisions about educator career promotion.