Gamificación para la innovación de la educación: Una revisión sistemática de la literatura.

Abstract

Gamification was born as an educational innovation tool to improve skills in education. This paper proposes to carry out a systematic review of the literature, focusing on research that has explored the effects of this learning technique on high school and university students. The Kitchenham & Carters method was used with the formulation of three guiding questions, based on aspects such as approaches, methodologies, and contributions to the teaching-learning process. Indeed, after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 26 relevant documents were identified from the electronic databases of IEEE, Springer and ScienceDirect, collected during the last 5 years. The results suggest that gamification is a valuable tool for educational innovation since it promotes motivation, commitment, active learning, immediate feedback, collaboration, and personalization.