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Meaningful Implementation of Gamification in Information Literacy Instruction

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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability (ECIL 2015)

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Today’s information society has brought up a new generation of learners that demands more dynamic and interactive teaching approaches and has to be equipped with new types of skills. Especially in education, gamification has been an emerging trend in the last few years. Game elements and patterns are used to engage students in certain actions and shape their behavior. However, there is a distinction between purely reward-based and meaningful gamification, which can result in high quality learning. The aim of this study is to illustrate the positive effect that meaningful implementation of game elements and patterns can have on behavioral outcomes. Looking at the results of a comprehensive evaluation of The Legend of Zyren reveals that a clever way of implementing the content into the gaming context has a strong influence on both personal engagement and content mastery. The results illustrate that students who were more engaged in the game also had significantly better results in the final exam on information literacy.

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  1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Anja Wintermeyer

  2. Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Kathrin Knautz

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Wintermeyer, A., Knautz, K. (2015). Meaningful Implementation of Gamification in Information Literacy Instruction. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_36

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