Gamification considered the future of education
The future of education lies in gamification according to Professor Yeh Ping-Cheng (Benson Yeh), one of Taiwan’s most noted teaching innovators.
Over 80 Monash staff attended the recent Monash Education Academy presentation Gamification in teaching and the flipped classroom by Professor Yeh on Tuesday 4 August 2015.
Professor Yeh of National Taiwan University is the creator of PaGamo, the world’s first online social gaming platform for education.
There are now 70,000 students using the game and a Fortune 500 company is also using it for training staff.
Professor Yeh believes gamification is a must have teaching tool, because “students have grown up with videos and find it hard to concentrate on anything that isn’t a game”.
However Professor Yeh stresses that games in the classroom were not the total solution. “The key is to open up learning for students who previously were not interested in learning,” he says.
Professor Yeh also spoke about the benefits of flipped classrooms and BTS (by the student) Flipping, a teaching philosophy he has developed and widely promotes in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong.
“Flipped classroom teaching allows you to be more interactive with students and monitor student learning”, he said.
A recording of the presentation and an interview with Professor Yeh can be viewed online.
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