Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda

Oliveira, Wilk; Hamari, Juho; Shi, Lei; Toda, Armando M.; Rodrigues, Luiz; Palomino, Paula T.; Isotani, Seiji

doi:10.1007/s10639-022-11122-4

Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda

Oliveira, Wilk; Hamari, Juho; Shi, Lei; Toda, Armando M.; Rodrigues, Luiz; Palomino, Paula T.; Isotani, Seiji

Authors

Wilk Oliveira

Juho Hamari

Lei Shi

Armando M. Toda

Luiz Rodrigues

Paula T. Palomino

Seiji Isotani

Abstract

Gamification has been widely used to design better educational systems aiming to increase students’ concentration, motivation, engagement, flow experience, and others positive experiences. With advances in research on gamification in education, over the past few years, many studies have highlighted the need to tailor the gamification design properties to match individual students’ needs, characteristics and preferences. Thus, different studies have been conducted to personalize the gamification in education. However, the results are still contradictory and need to be better understood to advance this field. To provide a complete understanding of this research domain, we conducted a systematic literature review to summarize the results and discussions on studies that cover the field of tailored gamified education. Following a systematic process, we analysed 2108 studies and identified 19 studies to answer our research questions. The results indicate that most of the studies only consider students’ gamer types to tailor the systems, and most of the experiments do not provide sufficient statistical evidence, especially regarding learning performance using tailored gamified systems. Based on the results, we also provided an agenda with different challenges, opportunities, and research directions to improve the literature on tailored gamification in education. Our study contributes to the field of gamification design in education.

Citation

Oliveira, W., Hamari, J., Shi, L., Toda, A. M., Rodrigues, L., Palomino, P. T., & Isotani, S. (2023). Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda. Education and Information Technologies, 28(1), 373-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11122-4

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 17, 2022
Online Publication Date	Jun 29, 2022
Publication Date	2023-01
Deposit Date	Jul 8, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Mar 14, 2023
Journal	Education and Information Technologies
Print ISSN	1360-2357
Electronic ISSN	1573-7608
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	28
Issue	1
Pages	373-406
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11122-4

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