A gamificação como metodologia motivadora e engajadora no ensino superior: um levantamento bibliográfico de estudos realizados na UFRPE

Abstract

One of the greatest challenges in education today is to keep students motivated and engaged in the teaching and learning process. With the advancement of the digital world, the old model of knowledge construction, in which the teacher was the holder of knowledge, is becoming increasingly uninteresting for learners in this new digital era. The main objective of this work is to investigate the research developed on Gamification within the scope of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco in the last five years. The specific objectives are to define the concept of gamification, reflect on the use of gamified activities in higher education, analyze the results of relevant studies and evaluate the impact of gamification on improving learning within the educational context. The main authors on whom I based my research were: Freire (1968), Moran (2018), Prensky (2012), Huizinga (2010), Alves (2015), Bussarelo (2016), Fardo (2013), Salen & Zimmerman (2012), Kapp (2012), Werbach & Hunter (2012). The methodology adopted is bibliographic research, presenting the results of a Bibliographic Survey, exploratory and documentary, which identified scientific works written in Portuguese and related to the theme of Gamification as a motivating and engaging tool in higher education. For this, I defined search terms, inclusion and exclusion criteria and carried out a survey of scientific documents in the databases: Google Scholar, BDTD and Scielo Brasil. The results show 11 documents that have emerged in the last five years (2018-2022), dealing with the topic of gamification as a motivational and engaging tool in higher education within the scope of UFRPE. An analysis of the texts was carried out and it was found that the number of documents found in the repositories under study is still very small, which shows that the topic is little developed in the institution in question. The topic is very broad and has already presented positive results in its applicability both in the corporate world and in education. However, within the scope of UFRPE, there is a lack of research on Gamification, which is relevant to the teaching and learning process in contemporary society, and which can bring countless benefits to higher education.