My name is Aricka Schweitzer, and I’m going to talk to you today about using gamification to enhance
student learning, especially with task analysis. Several of the objectives relate to how it can apply across
higher education classrooms, understanding gamification principles to enhance student learning
outcomes, and how students assessed and analyzed using virtual reality as their gaming mechanism.
Again, gamification was a great theory to use, because players interact with each other in order to get
greater enhancement and greater goals. By using this game theory approach, again, it changed the
students’ behavior and allowed them to make decisions on how they proceeded within the game.
Virtual reality was the therapeutic means used during this gamification task, and students had to break
down each task they experienced physically and mentally during the game. They worked in teams, and
so players were able to play similar games and experience different outcomes. Then they had to break
down each one of those outcomes and how it would be applied to a patient case scenario. Students
were very motivated in order to participate, because of the technology. Not only that, but it’s well-
suited for active learning environments, and virtual reality is just one way of doing that. During the
analysis, students were able to differentiate, contrast different concepts, organize their thoughts, and
examine and analyze various areas of each game. Not only were they able to enhance their analysis
breakdown but also students found it very meaningful and gained a lot of purpose by providing this
particular challenge. Not only that, but great user engagement was observed, students were highly
motivated, and the achievement of the actual sample at the end was a great outcome for each student.