A case study of using gamification to improve art education in college class

Abstract

Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. The core concept of gamification is to apply elements and principles of game design to non-game areas to make certain activities more engaging. Education, with its strong interactivity, fierce competition among individuals/groups and challenges in high difficulties, which has lots of similarities with game, are supposed to be the most widely used areas of gamification. The author has 8 years of game designer experience and use specific game theory to design a set of gamification method for college class teaching. After practice, the result shows that it can significantly improve study enthusiasm, satisfaction for lecturers and teaching effect.