Software architectures for implementing achievement badges - Practical experiences

Lassi Haaranen; Lasse Hakulinen; Petri Ihantola; Ari Korhonen

doi:10.1109/LaTiCE.2014.16

Software architectures for implementing achievement badges - Practical experiences

Lassi Haaranen, Lasse Hakulinen, Petri Ihantola, Ari Korhonen

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Abstract

There are multiple commercial and non-commercial products available to integrate gamification aspects to existing services. Some of these are platform dependent whilst others are more general purpose. Commercial systems come with some problems - for example, lack of control and privacy issues. To avoid these problems, we created two iterations of badge systems and tested both of them on large courses (ca. 300 students each). In this paper, we present these systems and evaluate their merits and flaws. Based on our experiences, we present design principles on how to implement badge systems to existing online learning environments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014
Publisher	IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS
Pages	41-46
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479935918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2014.16
Publication status	Published - 2014
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Duration: 11 Apr 2014 → 13 Apr 2014

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Conference	2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuching, Sarawak
Period	11/04/14 → 13/04/14

Keywords

Achievement badges
Automated assessment
Gamification
System design

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Software

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Haaranen, L, Hakulinen, L, Ihantola, P & Korhonen, A 2014, Software architectures for implementing achievement badges - Practical experiences. in Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014., 6821826, IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS, pp. 41-46, 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 11/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2014.16

Software architectures for implementing achievement badges - Practical experiences. / Haaranen, Lassi; Hakulinen, Lasse; Ihantola, Petri et al.
Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, LATICE 2014. IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS, 2014. p. 41-46 6821826.

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