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26-11-2019

Gamification in management education - A literature mapping

Authors: Rui Silva, Ricardo Rodrigues, Carmem Leal

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Abstract

The application of gamification to the teaching-learning process across different fields of knowledge constitutes an emerging practice applied across all levels of education, from primary school up to university. This article, in keeping with the importance of the applications of this type of tool, holds the general objective of undertaking the mapping of research articles that approach the application of gamification techniques to teaching-learning processes in general education of all areas and the teaching of management in particular. In order to achieve this, this article describes the organisational structure of the field research in terms of publications, authors and journals as well as identifying and classifying the research articles about adopting gamification methods. Hence, the subject of analysis encapsulates scientific articles published in either the ISI Web of Science (WOS) or Scopus (SCO) databases related to the application of gamification to the teaching process in general and to management in particular.
The present research focused on the mapping of the literature related to the application of gamification to the management field because we didn’t find an article in the literature addressing this particular area. The existence of this GAP motivated the authors to conduct a research directed to the analysis of scientific studies in which gamification had been applied in this area.

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Metadata
Title
Gamification in management education - A literature mapping
Authors
Rui Silva
Ricardo Rodrigues
Carmem Leal
Publication date
26-11-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Education and Information Technologies / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1360-2357
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7608
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-10055-9

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