https://renelobo.com/tags/cscl/CSCLHugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-usWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://renelobo.com/media/sharing.jpghttps://renelobo.com/tags/cscl/https://renelobo.com/projects/pyramidapp/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://renelobo.com/projects/pyramidapp/<p>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.</p> <p>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, <em>Motivation-Driven Mechanics in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Scripts</em>.</p>