Gamification of E-Learning Apps via Acceptance Requirements Analysis

Federico Calabrese, Luca Piras, Mohammed Al-Obeidallah, Benedicta Egbikuadje, Duaa Alkubaisy

2024

Abstract

In the last few years, and particularly during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, E-Learning has become a very important and strategic asset for our society, relevant both for academic and industry settings, involving participants ranging from students to professionals. Different applications have been developed to support E-Learning to be an effective tool, particularly in relation to the software engineering and programming areas. However, in order to be effective, in particular within academic settings, such tools require students to be continuously engaged and motivated to learn both practical and theoretical aspects. The integration of gamification in educational environments has gained considerable prominence as a potential mean to augment students’ motivation and involvement, providing them with immediate feedback and reinforcement, bolstering their sense of accomplishment and motivation to persist in their studies. However, to design gamified applications that can effectively engage and motivate users, as the literature has demonstrated, it is required to consider psychological, sociological, and human behavioural aspects, often referred to as Acceptance Requirements. This study presents a case study, where a Goal Modeling-based, Systematic, Acceptance Requirements Analysis and Gamification Design process, has been applied, by using the Agon framework, to prototype a gamified tool, aiming at engaging students towards learning both theory and practice related to a “Web-Based Mobile App Development” university module. To evaluate our proposed prototype, students were involved to use our proposed gamified prototype. The results show that our gamification solution can engage and motivate students towards learning both theoretical and practical aspects of the module.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Calabrese F., Piras L., Al-Obeidallah M., Egbikuadje B. and Alkubaisy D. (2024). Gamification of E-Learning Apps via Acceptance Requirements Analysis. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-696-5, SciTePress, pages 291-298. DOI: 10.5220/0012550400003687

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase24,
author={Federico Calabrese and Luca Piras and Mohammed Al-Obeidallah and Benedicta Egbikuadje and Duaa Alkubaisy},
title={Gamification of E-Learning Apps via Acceptance Requirements Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2024},
pages={291-298},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012550400003687},
isbn={978-989-758-696-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Gamification of E-Learning Apps via Acceptance Requirements Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-696-5
AU - Calabrese F.
AU - Piras L.
AU - Al-Obeidallah M.
AU - Egbikuadje B.
AU - Alkubaisy D.
PY - 2024
SP - 291
EP - 298
DO - 10.5220/0012550400003687
PB - SciTePress