Gamification Design in a History E-Learning Context

Engagement is one of the main reasons for introducing gamification to learning and thus serves as an important measurement of its effectiveness. Gamification of learning aims to improve the learning process by making use of the motivating effects of digital game elements and techniques. However, summarizing gamification into points, badges and leaderboards is a very common misunderstanding of gamification hence greatly reducing purposed effect on the target (students). In this paper, we will explore the key elements that can lead to a good gamification in “History” as a learning context, driven by target (students) motivation and, based on the Octalysis framework.