Empirical study on the effect of achievement badges in TRAKLA2 online learning environment

Proceedings - 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, LaTiCE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 47-54

  Hakulinen, Lasse ^a   Auvinen, Tapio ^a   Korhonen, Ari ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

achievement badges; e learning; gamification

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT BADGES; CONTROL GROUPS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GAMIFICATION; ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STUDENTS' BEHAVIORS; TREATMENT GROUP;

E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84881110736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LaTiCE.2013.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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