Evaluation of a Gamified Elearning Course for Agile Methods

For teaching agile methods in an IT undergraduate course we built up a gamified blended learning course. We created the course with gamification elements like videos, quizzes, badges, and points within the learning management system Moodle. To do so we used a gamification concept based on MDA (Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics). The goal of the gamification concept was to increase intrinsic motivation of the students. We evaluated the motivation of our students with a questionnaire that is based on the psychological motivation theory STD (Self Determination Theory). The paper will shortly show how we built up the course in Moodle, and also gives some details on the used plugins and gamification elements. The main focus is on the evaluation which was done using a standardized questionnaire on intrinsic motivation built upon SDT at the beginning and at the end of our course. 39 students participated before taking the course and 16 after the completion of the course. The evaluation shows that some elements in the course like Videos and quizzes increase the motivation clearly whereas others do not. We could show an increase of intrinsic motivation in some factors of the questionnaire we used, but not in all factors.