游戏化有用吗——教育领域实证研究的比较分析

Is Gamification Effective——A Comparison of Related Empirical Studies in Education

到目前为止,在以往教育领域的实证研究中,游戏化是否能够提高学生的学习效果还没有形成一致结论。通过文献分析,我们发现以往的研究之所以无法行成一致结论,主要是因为没有深入分析如下四点重要因素:(1)学习动机,(2)不同活动特征,(3)游戏化系统使用时间,(4)用户特征。因此,我们建议在将来的研究中应该从动机出发,分析不同游戏化设计机制对学习动机的影响;考虑不同活动的特征,识别对于什么样的活动游戏化最为有效;从使用时间出发,分析游戏化应用长期使用和短期采纳之间的差异;对于不同特征的用户,识别游戏化对学习效果的不同作用。

Empirical research has not yielded consistent conclusion on whether gamification can improve students＂ learning. By reviewing literature, we concluded that the reason that previous studies had not researched a consistent conclusion was the lack of deep analysis of four factors：（1）learning motivation, （2）the features of different activities,（3）time duration of using game application,（4）students＂ characteristics. Therefore, we suggested that future research needed to： analyze the influence of the mechanism of game design on learning motivation; identify the most effective gamification of considering the characteristics of various activities; analyze the difference term use of games; and examine the effects of gamification on the learning .