Developing an educational mobile game prototype to shift from classroom activities to online gamifications

Abstract

Since the Covid19 epidemic in early 2020, online learning has become the practice for students of all ages in schools, whether in kindergarten, primary, secondary, or even higher education. The transition from classroom activities to digital learning such as quizzes, debates, brainstorming and more tools, have open many opportunities for researchers to analyze, design or develop the application. This research is to regard the gamification in learning which was used by researcher since 2010 in the classroom activities. A literature review was done on the gamification in a learning process before and after the epidemic and how it gives impact on student's affective elements in learning. Besides the literature review, we conducted a preliminary inquiry after students have had experienced the gamification in their learning before the epidemic. We conducted two forms of methods: a focus group conducted prior to the pandemic and an internet survey conducted after the outbreak. Aside from the investigation, we were able to determine students' motivation in online classes by pulling real data from their class access time in the morning class via Blackboard Learn online platform. Aligning traditional teaching and activities in the classroom requires work and ingenuity in terms of how to design it on an online platform while maintaining the same level of participation. We are currently transformed our usual classroom activity such as SUDOKU quiz game into a mobile educational game prototype. Due to the short duration of our project grant, the game prototype will be developed using prototype method. Some planned gaming aspects are suggested in the game, which will be discussed later.