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Title: Ahora o nunca: un estudio empírico de la gamificación en la educación superior en línea sobre la motivación de los estudiantes de ELE
Author: García Álvarez, Amanda
Director: Serradell-Lopez, Enric  
Abstract: Gamification represents a tool with great potential in education. It allows for going into greater depth in aspects linked to motivation, engagement, effort and collaboration. This innovative methodology is motivating. It leads to students engaging with content that fosters, above all, improvements in the acquisition of knowledge and skills. However, more empirical studies are required to identify the key factors that affect the effectiveness of gamification, with the aim of increasing levels of motivation among students in online higher education. As a result, this project responds to the important need to continue studying the potential to systematize the use of gamification and, thus, offer students higher quality and more meaningful learning. The aim of this study, then, is to determine the key factors that boost the effectiveness of gamification and propose a model for developing its use in online higher education. The data collected have been analyzed using a mixed method approach, involving both a quantitative statistical analysis and a qualitative analysis, to validate the gamified system and demonstrate its effectiveness. In-depth evaluation of the system has shown that the model proposed is statistically significant and has a positive impact on the effectiveness of gamification in an online higher education setting.
Keywords: gamification
motivation
higher education
gamified system
second language learning
Spanish as a foreign language
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 14-Sep-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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