Gamification as a Strategy to Improve Students’ Motivation and Engagement in Educational Environments at Engineering Courses: bibliographic

This abstract is related to a work in progress and the category is research. The continuous search for methods to spur students' motivation and concentration at the diverse array of academic study fields has brought the need for innovations in the educational environment, in this context, it emerges the gamification concept. This work aims to identify the concept of gamification and its applicability specifically geared towards Engineering courses. To achieve this goal, a bibliographic review was carried out in two stages. The first one looked for studies that addressed the definition of techniques based on games in general, their relation with the teaching process and possibilities of use in educational environments, whether virtual or not. In a second moment, the work listed several job prospects of gamification directed specifically to the Engineering context. For this purpose, several repositories were mapped and 38 scientific papers were selected. Through the mapping of the literature it was possible to obtain a knowledge base on the subject and, from this, to trace the potentialities not yet fully explored in which one can glimpse a field for the continuity of the research.