Motivational Factors in Educational Gamification

摘要

Most of the current educational gamification applications are created without clear connections to motivational theories backing their design. As a result, they focus more on rewards and progress information and less on gameful experiences. This paper discusses the design of OneUp Learning - a gamification platform developed with the aim to address these problems. It discusses the underlying motivational theory and psychological mechanisms of games driving its design and briefly describes the functionality of the resulting highly configurable platform for gamifying academic courses and studying the motivational mechanisms of educational gamification.