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Progressive Incentivisation and Gamification in a Rural Education Development Initiative |
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| Creator | Abraham Gert van der Vyver |
| Title | Progressive Incentivisation and Gamification in a Rural Education Development Initiative |
| Publisher | Stamford International University |
| Publication Year | 2558 |
| Journal Title | ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation |
| Journal Vol. | 2 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 81 |
| Keyword | Badge,ICTs,tablets,digital,assessment,resource-constrained |
| ISSN | 2351-0110 |
| Abstract | The school system in South Africa faces serious challenges. Among them are ongoing changes to curricula, bureaucratic inefficiencies, teacher under-performance, lack of school leadership and management skills and the non-availability of learning and teaching materials such as textbooks, as highlighted by the recent textbook crisis in South Africa's rural provinces. The complexity of the school system and the interaction with other socioeconomic factors also significantly influence the performance of learners particularly in underresourced and rural schools. Educators and policymakers searching for solutions inevitably looked at ICTs (information and communication technologies). The ICT4RED (ICT for Education) initiative was launched by the South African government. The scope of the ICT4RED initiative was to make tablets available to teachers, learners and district officials and to explore and design various frameworks, models, guidelines and tools regarding teacher professional development (hereafter TPD). The decision was made to focus on the teachers and they were thus provided with tablets first. An ?Earn as You Learn' approach was developed, where progress was measured by using a badging system as a form of assessment and microaccreditation. The badging system is based on the principles of gamification. In this paper the implementation and evaluation of this badging system are discussed. The researcher focused on the linkage between incentivisation and gamification that was established in the project. Data was collected by way of five semi-structured interviews with coordinators of the project. Although the participants were in support of incentivisation and gamification, the electronic management of the badging system could not be implemented because of technological constraints. |
