The Learning Games

The Learning Games is a KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices project. Motivation is the key to succeed in every endeavour people take up in their lives. Motivation makes us engage better in our studies, our jobs and drives us to overcome difficulties that may hinder our success. Unfortunately, our educational systems, more often than not, fail in providing that motivation to our students, resulting in unacceptable rates of school failure, from compulsory secondary studies to higher education, including second chance programmes like adult education. In this context, we as teachers have to examine our teaching practice. This project proposes a gamified system that takes these elements from real world experience and incorporate them into an integral framework that can be used to assess all kinds of learning (formal, primarily, but also informal and non-formal) within the classroom through the achievements the students make in their modules; a system that provides immediate and accessible feedback about performance and the level of mastery acquired and what needs to be learnt in order to progress; a system that improves teacher-student communication, and also student-student communication, a social dimension of learning, which is known to encourage deeper engagement with the activities.