Robert Wall and Liz Crowell from UCO’s Center for eLearning and Continuing Education, led the session entitled “Designing Games with Desire2Learn Technology”. During this session, participants gained an understanding of why games are so addictive and how they can apply the same techniques to modules within Desire2Learn Learning Environment using release conditions, learning objectives and much more.

3. Agenda
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Gamification
Technology for Teachers
Letter of Intent
Combining Gamification and TfT
Challenges
What's Next
Questions

4. Run Down on Gamification
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Made as a board game at first (notecards
and dice)
Race-to-the-top mechanic
Iterative gameplay
Content navigation
Experience based
NPCs

5. Technology for Teachers
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Required course
Technology prep for future teachers
Individual Identification Plan

6. Designed for Games
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Progression
Meaningful Choices
Practice
Mastery
Guiding Hand
Problem Solving
Familiar UI

7. Designed for Instruction
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Instructor Guided
Student Specific
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Learning Preference
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Group and Individual Activities
12 days - 3 weeks
Archived Resources

8. Letter of Intent
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Game Walkthrough
Explanation of Design
Instructions for Teaching and Learning

9. How it came together
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D2L Activities
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Discussions
Dropbox
Quizzes
Grades
Conditional Release
Intelligent Agents
Valence API
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UI
Progress
Gamification

10. Challenges Faced
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Map
Release conditions
Valence
Unique files types
Intelligence agents only as emails
The way grades are recorded
More development time

11. Roadmap (What's Next)
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Pilot Class
Genders
Pilot
Data
Granularity

13. Liz Crowell
University of Central Oklahoma
ecrowell1@uco.edu
@LizbonOKC
Robert Wall
University of Central Oklahoma
rwall3@uco.edu
@thadewey