Understanding the Effect of Gamification on Learners with Different Personalities

Wad Ghaban, Robert Hendley

2019

Abstract

Gamification has been shown to enhance the motivation of learners in online courses. However, learners respond differently to gamification depending on their personalities. For this reason, it has been suggested to build a learner model that would enable a system to match gamification elements to learners’ personalities. To do this, we need to understand the relationship between gamification and personalities. Thus, two versions of a learning website have been built: one with gamification elements and the other without these elements. We measured learners’ motivation, knowledge gain, and satisfaction in both versions. The results confirm the benefit of gamification overall in enhancing learners’ motivation. However, the knowledge gain of learners was worse in the gamified version. The results vary between personalities. This finding may be explained by the optional nature of the chat and the learners’ tendency to take the initiative. Further study of more gamification elements and compulsory chat might be considered.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ghaban W. and Hendley R. (2019). Understanding the Effect of Gamification on Learners with Different Personalities.In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-367-4, pages 392-400. DOI: 10.5220/0007730703920400

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu19,
author={Wad Ghaban and Robert Hendley},
title={Understanding the Effect of Gamification on Learners with Different Personalities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2019},
pages={392-400},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007730703920400},
isbn={978-989-758-367-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Understanding the Effect of Gamification on Learners with Different Personalities
SN - 978-989-758-367-4
AU - Ghaban W.
AU - Hendley R.
PY - 2019
SP - 392
EP - 400
DO - 10.5220/0007730703920400