Introduction: With new generations of students entering the educational system and calling for novel adult learning approaches, such as gamification, traditional didactics seem to be diminishing in ...importance. The aim of this paper is to introduce gamification as a novel concept in adult learning and to present its impact on nursing education.Methods: Through a combination of 2dSearch, Publish or Perish and PubMed2XL applications and the set criteria, we used the Google Scholar and Medline / PubMed search engines to compile, analyse, and synthesise studies related to gamification in correlation with the educational process in the field of nursing. To assess the level of methodological quality of research, we used the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT).Results: The final analysis included nine studies related to gamification in nursing course units. Most often, game elements in the form of badges and feedback were included. Most research studies reported a positive impact of gamification on nursing students in the form of increased motivation and engagement, with only one survey reporting a negative impact in the form of inappropriateness and inefficiency. The evaluation of the included studies according to the MMAT tool showed a medium level of methodological quality. Discussion and conclusion: Gamification is a relatively new concept in nursing education and represents the potential for a more advanced way of conveying information. In the future, research should be carried out to clarify the concept of gamification and examine the possibilities of its implementation in the educational environment in Slovenia.
Purpose
The research aims to evaluate whether this educational approach is being implemented in a Portuguese public university and looking for explicit references to education for sustainable ...development (ESD) in the online descriptions of course units (CU).
Design/methodology/approach
The research design adopted for this qualitative research follows the principles of a case study with exploratory, multiple and collective features.
Findings
It was possible to find direct matches with key ESD expressions in fifteen of CU. In addition, nine CU were identified in the second stage of analysis of the teacher training master programmes.
Research limitations/implications
One of the limitations of this study which the authors identified, and which was responsible for considerably reducing the probability of finding matches, was that only results in which the key expressions appeared in the description of the CU in exactly the same form as in the research instrument were recorded.
Practical implications
The need for an educational programme for teachers to be developed and implemented in the near future.
Social implications
A training workshop will be proposed with the main aim of supporting teaching staff in making the necessary shift in their pedagogical practices to include a ESD orientation in their CU.
Originality/value
The instrument eveloped that appears in Appendix - Analysis Tool with key ESD expressions.
The technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for measuring the relative efficiency has been widely used in the higher education sector. However, measuring the performance of a set of course units ...or modules that are part of a university curriculum has received little attention. In this article, DEA was used in a visual way to measure the performance of 12 course units that are part of a Photogrammetry curriculum taught at Aalto University. The results pinpointed the weakest performing units, i.e. units where the provided teaching efforts might not be adequately reflected in the students' marks in the unit. Based on the results, a single unit was considered to offer poor performance with respect to its teaching resources and was selected as a candidate for revision of its contents. Financial resources were not used as such; instead, the performance of students in previous pre-requisite units was used as the inputs. For clarity, a single output covering the overall student performance in the examined unit was used. The technique should be widely applicable assuming the grade point averages of the students who took the course unit are available along with the marks obtained in the evaluated units and their pre-requisites.
An application’s conceptual model is the “mental map" that the designers employ to present information logically. A hallmark of usable design is when both the designer’s conceptual model and the end ...users’ conceptual models are in alignment. In this paper, we present the User and Usage Constraints in Information Systems Development as applicable to University. A special case study of Lagos State University Information Systems development is considered.
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