Mobile Gamification to Integrate Face-to-Face and Virtual Students: Synchronous and Asynchronous

Abstract

This chapter shows the proposal of a team of professors from the Universidad San Pablo-CEU to facilitate the active participation of all students regardless of their type of attendance at classes (face-to-face, virtual synchronous, and virtual asynchronous). The proposal consists of an educational game of questions and answers that has been designed. The students create the game questions themselves and upload them via a web application at any time and from anywhere in the world. The games are developed in the class sessions, and the students, distributed in mixed face-to-face and virtual teams, participate together through their mobile phones. The initiative was enthusiastically embraced by the students, who showed involvement, great interest, and significantly improved their level of comprehension and academic success.