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Global trend towards Gamification
Techniques of Games and Future of Education
Under the rubric «Techniques of Games
and Future of Education», Oxford Analytica
issued a report and published in Arabic by
the website of World Government Summit,
within its releases of the current year 2016.
The report deals with the role of games
applications in several fields, mainly
the education. The report defines the
applications of games as inserting or
applying the games in contexts such as
stimulating students and urging them to
take part within the mechanisms of play.
All games have three basic characteristics:
a set of clear rules, feedback system and
specific and fixed target. With some few
exceptions, the engagement in games is
optional in order to achieve pleasure.
Among the multiple elements that
constitute the games, there are three
elements related to education, which are:
Mechanical elements such as gradual
evolution, integration and immediate
feedback
Personal elements such as condition,
clarity, collective responsibility, order the
lead and panels of winners
Emotional elements, mainly the
psychological flow
As a new educational method, the best
thing of Gamification is the freedom
given to the students and teachers. The
freedom is embodied in the four freedom:
Freedom of failure, experience, exerting
effort and Self-expression. These freedoms
represent greet educational transformation
to students with educational ambitions,
which were damaged by the traditional
methods of education. However, these
freedoms do not include the academic
success and do not reduce the possible
negatives of Gamification. The report
was published in full in PDF on the site
of World Government Summit; you can
download and view it in full. It is worthy
to say that the techniques of Gamification
have become one of the recent trends, not
only in education but also in encouraging
the public to use products and services
in general. Some governments began to
use it to encourage people to focus on
electronic and smart channels in order to
obtain the governmental services instead
of the traditional counter. This came in the
context of encouraging the adoption of
this app and bridging the gap between the
development in techniques and regression
of users in catching up these techniques.