Leveraging on Gamification and Learning Analytics for Improved Student Learning

Gamification has been seen as one of the methods for increasing engagement in various scenarios - marketing, customer and student engagement, product and workplace. It is seen when game elements are used in non-game context leads improvement in engagement and motivation. In the educational context, gamification is expected to improve motivation and engagement of student during course of learning thereby increasing student learning and academic performance. With prevalence of online learning, the need of engaging and keeping the student's motivated has become even more important. This paper thus reviews the ways in which gamification can be used for increasing motivation and engagement of learners. This paper also explores the role of Learning Management System (LMS) and Learning Analytics (LA) to track the performance of learners in gamified courses. This paper proposes a framework using gamification and learning analytics. This framework will help stakeholders to apply analytics to data generated from educational gamification for improving engagement and motivation, thereby improving teaching and learning process as well as enhancing student learning.