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ABSTRACT
Gamification has gained an increasing attention from researchers and practitioners in various domains including education as it can increase learners’ engagement and motivation. However, little is known about how educational gamification experiences can be influenced by learners’ characteristics. Therefore, this study provides a systematic meta-review of empirical studies related to learners’ characteristics and educational gamification experiences. The obtained results from the meta-analysis of forty related articles are: (a) learners’ psychological and behavioral outcomes were affected by learners’ characteristics in educational gamification systems; (b) quantitative methods, using questionnaires, are the most used method to measure the effect of learners’ characteristics on their learning outcomes in educational gamification systems, and this needs to be changed to the new potential of using educational big data and learning analytics approaches; (c) personality traits is the most investigated characteristic followed by player types, but there is a need to further investigate other important factors of learners’ characteristics, such as working memory capacity and age; and, (d) a set of game design guidelines that should be taken into consideration while designing educational gamification catering individual difference were proposed.
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Mouna Denden
Dr. Mouna Denden received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2020. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France (UPHF). She has published several academic papers in refereed international journals and conferences. Dr. Denden has been a member of the local organizing committee and program committees of various international conferences international conferences, as well as a reviewer for several in several peer-reviewed journals. Her current research focuses on educational gamification, educational games, distance learning, learner modeling, adaptive learning, educational psychology, open science, artificial intelligence in education and learning analytics.
Ahmed Tlili
Dr. Ahmed Tlili is an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, China, an Adjunct Associate Professor at An-Najah University, Palestine, and a Visiting Professor at UNIR University, Spain. He is the Co-Director of the OER Lab at the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University (SLIBNU), China. He serves as the Editor of Springer Series Future Education and Learning Spaces. He is also the Associate Editor of the IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology, the Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, and Smart Learning Environments. Dr. Tlili is also an expert at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). He has been awarded the IEEE TCLT Early Career Researcher Award in Learning Technologies for 2020.
Nian-Shing Chen
Dr. Nian-Shing Chen is Chair Professor in the Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences and Program of Learning Sciences at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Prof. Chen received the national outstanding research awards for three times in 2008, 2011 and 2015. He is ranked in the second place on the top authors list by article count in Computers & Education. He is ranked 4 on the top scholar list in educational technology field based on an article published in British Journal of Educational Technology. One of his papers published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was awarded as the top cited article in 2010. Professor Chen served as the Editor-in-Chief for the prestige journal of Educational Technology and Society. He is a golden core member of IEEE, life-long member of ACM and the former Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.
Mourad Abed
Dr. Mourad Abed was the Vice-President (digital) of the University of Valenciennes and the Vice-Director of the Institute of Science and Technology, from 2000 to 2010. He is currently a Professor (Exceptional class) in computer engineering with the University of Valenciennes and a member of the Human Computer Interaction and Automated Reasoning Research Group, Automatic, Mechanic and Human IT Laboratory. He is also the Director of the Program of Master of Science and Technology Studies, a European Project Coordinator, and the National Co-Chair of the Research Group. He has been the President or the Co-President of international conferences or special sessions and conferences for international journals. He has authored or co-authored (more than 180) numerous book chapters, journal articles, and communications. He participates in several research networks, projects, and associations.
Mohamed Jemni
Dr. Mohamed Jemni is a Professor of Computer Science and Educational Technologies at the University of Tunis, Tunisia. He is the Director of Information and Communications Technology at ALECSO. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences about ICT, E-accessibility, E-learning, and Entrepreneurship Education for international organizations such as UNESCO, ITU, and ALECSO. His current research interests include educational technologies, Online learning, Mobile learning, E-accessibility, Grid and High-Performance Computing. He is an advisor of G3ict – the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies – an advocacy initiative launched by the United Nations.
Fathi Essalmi
Dr. Fathi Essalmi He is the former Head of the Computer Science Department at Kairouan University, Tunisia. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He supervises master’s students and co-supervises Ph.D. students in two fields: learner modeling based on computer games and federation of personalization efforts. He has several publications with international team appeared in journals with impact factor and ranked conferences. He is also a program committee member in several conferences and a reviewer in several journals.