Ministry of Education launched new improvements to learning gamification methodology

New improvements to learning gamification methodology with the start of the second semester, has been launched by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to enhance the features provided by it and maximise the benefits it accrues to students and their academic achievement. The Ministry had launched learning gamification strategy on Qatar Education platform at the beginning of the current academic year 2022-23, through the “Subject Stars” game, which had a noticeable positive impact on students’ interaction with educational resources, assessments given to them in subject classes, and completion of required tasks.

Learning gamification strategy motivates and encourages students to learn by rewarding them with points, badges, and certificates for completing tasks such as watching the video lesson, completing the assessment, watching the presentation, and other tasks, as the system provides a leaderboard in each study subject that appears. 

Students compete by collecting the points assigned to them by the subject teacher based on their completion. Students are also given personalised badges and certificates at school to motivate them (behavioural — skill - cognitive).

The Ministry provided weekly leaderboards for students and teachers with the start of the second semester of the academic year 2022-23, in a new and fun experience that adopts the latest edutainment methods, through two games where points are calculated uniformly for students and teachers, and works automatically within the system without human intervention. 

It was observed how teachers and students interacted with the new experience. 

The student competes with a new group of students at the same academic level in the same school on a weekly basis, and the teacher competes with a new group of teachers in the same school on a weekly basis. 

Every Sunday morning, the groups are updated, and at the end of each week, the competitors within each group are divided into three categories based on the total points obtained for one week only, and response time.

The first category progresses to the next level. The second category remains at the same level. The third category goes to a lower level. The game contains 20 consecutive levels, and the user gets different badges when he reaches those levels: Level 4 - Bronze Badge. Level 8 - Silver Badge. Level 12 - gold badge. Level 16 - Pearl Badge. Level 20 - Diamond Badge.