We know which are the most used mechanics in education, they are 10: points; level and strategies; badges; leaderboards, prizes and rewards; progress bar; storyline and feedback as Nah et al. (2014) presented in their study. But what about other educational environment, such as MOOCs?
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07293-7_39#page-1
I haven't seen any meta-analyses or reviews of gamification in MOOCs, but I think it might be a bit early for that. Some references that you might find interesting are
- Evolution of the Conversation and Knowledge Acquisition in Social Networks Related to a MOOC Course
- Oriol Borrás Gené, Margarita Martínez Núñez, and Ángel Fidalgo Blanco. 2014. Gamification in MOOC: challenges, opportunities and proposals for advancing MOOC model. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 215-220. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2669711.2669902
- Gamification of MOOCs for increasing user engagement
If you want to pursue writing a survey of this area, you will probably want to take a look at the Educational Data Mining (conference and journal), Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference, Journal of Learning Analytics, and Learning at Scale (L@S) conferences.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_44
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2669902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITE.2014.7020290
Dear Allessandra, the embedded link to a brief search on Google Scholar may also contribute to the discussion. Good luck!
https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?start=10&q=%22game+mechanics%22+and+MOOCs+and+popular&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2012
Learning in a Flash, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266477068_Learning_in_a_Flash, may be of tangential interest. The article recognizes that text is no longer the primary means of learning transfer and argues that character-based simulation—in which animated characters provide a social context to motivate learners—can improve cognition and recall and bodes well for high-impact e-learning. (So, the article is not about Massive Open Online Courses per se but about e-learning and the value that flash animations, which could be made part of MOOCS, might bring that.)
Article Learning in a Flash
Thank you very much for your detailed and inspiring answers, I'll keep you posted.
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