Uma experiência de gamificação no contexto do ensino remoto: análise da motivação e experiência dos jogadores

Abstract

Aiming to prepare professionals to deal with the constant quality problems that arise during software development, the discipline of Software Quality has become an essential part of Computer Science courses. However, due to the paralysis of face-to-face classes and the adoption of remote emergency teaching by universities, professors have been researching and adopting teaching strategies different from the traditional ones. To support professors and to motivate, to engage, and to involve students during remote teaching, this research presents a case study on the use of gamification elements through a e-learning system, Classcraft, during the Software Quality course. The main global of this research is to investigate the students motivation and game experience with gamification in a remote teaching context. During the case study, data was collected on the gamer profile of the students using the taxonomy proposed by Bartle as a basis, the students’ perceptions regarding motivation, in which the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory questionnaire was used, and game experience, in which the Game Experience Questionnaire questionnaire was used. The results obtained showed that players with Socializer and Explorer profiles obtained a better performance in the activities. Furthermore, the results indicate that students prefer to perform the tasks using the Classcraft platform, the use of the platform improved the learning process, and students were participative even in a complicated context regarding social isolation. By conducting this research we observed that the use of gamification elements with the support of e-learning systems brought satisfactory results and that it encouraged student participation. Thus, the use of gamification as an approach for remote teaching demonstrated to be a good alternative for implementing the activities.