Preface for the Special Issue “Trends in Educational Gamification: Challenges and Learning Opportunities”

José Carlos Piñero Charlo; Nadja Belova; Eduardo Quevedo Gutiérrez; Alberto Zapatera Llinares; Elena Arboleya-García; Jakub Swacha; Paula López-Serentill; Enrique Carmona-Medeiro

doi:10.3390/educsci12030179

Education Sciences (Mar 2022)

Preface for the Special Issue “Trends in Educational Gamification: Challenges and Learning Opportunities”

José Carlos Piñero Charlo,
Nadja Belova,
Eduardo Quevedo Gutiérrez,
Alberto Zapatera Llinares,
Elena Arboleya-García,
Jakub Swacha,
Paula López-Serentill,
Enrique Carmona-Medeiro

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José Carlos Piñero Charlo: Department of Didactics of Mathematics, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510 Cádiz, Spain
Nadja Belova: Department of Chemistry Education, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Eduardo Quevedo Gutiérrez: Institute for Applied Microelectronics, Campus de Tafira, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Alberto Zapatera Llinares: Department of Educational Sciences, University CEU Cardenal Herrera, 03203 Elche, Spain
Elena Arboleya-García: Department of Educational Sciences, University of Oviedo, 33005 Oviedo, Spain
Jakub Swacha: Institute of Management, University of Szczecin, Cukrowa 8, 71-004 Szczecin, Poland
Paula López-Serentill: Department of Specific Didactics, University of Girona, 17080 Girona, Spain
Enrique Carmona-Medeiro: Department of Didactics of Mathematics, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Cadiz, 11510 Cádiz, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030179
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3
p. 179

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Readers of the journal Education Sciences probably agree that playing games comes naturally—we all know how to play some game—however, because of the complexity of gaming, it is almost exclusively limited to mammals with regard to all animals: almost 80% of mammals use some sort of game for learning [...]

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ISSN: 2227-7102 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Education
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/education

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