3150 - Meaningful Gamification: Engaging Learners to Fail Early, Fail Fast for Learning Success

Monday, April 25, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 208

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 3150

Leader(s)

Kristin Dolan, MD

Associate Professor
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Satid Thammasitboon, MD, MHPE (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Saul Flores, MD

Associate Professor
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Jennifer Benjamin, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
GeneraL Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine -
Houston, Texas, United States
Corrie Chumpitazi, MD MS

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Megan Gubichuk, MD

Clinical Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Kristin J. Dolan, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Satid Thammasitboon, MD, MHPE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Saul Flores, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jennifer C. Benjamin, MD, MS : I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Corrie E. Chumpitazi, MD MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Megan Gubichuk, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Futurists assert that “gamification” has become one of the most effective educational approaches in our generations. Gamification helps learners find personal connections, motivate engagement in learning and transfer knowledge into practice. Well-designed gamification pushes learners to immerse in a learning space that promotes repeated learning and practice—a fail early, fail often for success mindset. Many educators and game industries have attempted to produce games for learning, a serious game, without clear educational frameworks, and thus with limited success.

This workshop will introduce the “RECIPE” for meaningful gamification, a set of theory-informed principles to incorporate gaming into the learning process. Participants will learn key elements of gamification that stimulate intrinsic motivation and engagement among learners. Participants will practice designing a “choose your own adventure (CYOA)” module, an example of an effective, reproducible gamification strategy that can be used in many types of educational environments.

This workshop is designed to scaffold complex frameworks through an inquiry-based learning. Specifically, participants will compare and contrast meaningful gamification from serious gaming. Brief didactics will introduce principles, tips and tools for gamification. Participants will then engage in a fast pace, modular learning with hands-on small group tasks exploring exemplary applications of meaningful gamification. For application, participants will learn how to create a CYOA module as a low-cost, highly reproducible platform for gamification. In small groups, using structured worksheets, participants will design a CYOA module on a chosen topic. The workshop will end with discussion about ideas for implementation of meaningful gamification in each participant’s educational practice.