PyramidApp
Jan 1, 2020
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PyramidApp is a tool, developed by the TIDE group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, for running Pyramid (snowball) collaborative learning flow patterns: students first answer individually and then discuss and agree on answers in progressively larger groups.
During my PhD I studied how game mechanics can foster intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in these scripts: whether they can induce a flow state, how reward-based gamification affects participation, and how group awareness features in PyramidApp influence student engagement and learning outcomes. This work is the core of my doctoral thesis, Motivation-Driven Mechanics in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Scripts.
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Professor and Researcher
I am a professor and researcher at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de
Caldas in Bogotá, Colombia, where I work at the intersection of Artificial
Intelligence, programming education and learning analytics. I received my
PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from Universitat Pompeu
Fabra (UPF) in 2023.