I'm attempting the development of a gamified training system, and most resources I have found on the subject so far emphasise competitive mechanics, such as scoreboards and awards as methods of indirect player competition.
I've been thus wondering if there are any studies or learning materials on cooperation-based gamified systems, whether synchronous or asynchronous.
I thank you all in advance.
Maybe you could have a look at the research of Johnson & Johnson on cooperation and cooperative learning. They do not address games or gamification but they show the relevant elements for good cooperation.
They also analysed competition and if I remember well, their main result is, that competition works for learning when winning is relatively unimportant and everybody has a chance to win.
Johnson, David W., und Roger T. Johnson. 1999. „Making Cooperative Learning Work“. Theory Into Practice 38 (2): 67–73. https://doi.org/10/b3ftqt.
Johnson, David W., und Roger T. Johnson. 2009. „An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning“. Educational Researcher 38 (5): 365–79. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X09339057.
For some time now, we have been working on translating these research findings on cooperative learning into corresponding game elements using the gamification framework EMPAMOS (www.empmos.de). We want to find out whether it is possible to better understand the motivational core of such scenarios.
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