Gamifying Faculty Development
Session Time and Location
Date:
Fri, 8 Jun 2018
Time:
Time:
9:45am to 10:45am
Room: Room:
Conference Center
Conference Center
Session Track
- Faculty and Staff Professional Development
Session Format
- Workshop
Speaker(s)
This session will demonstrate how gamification can be used to motivate faculty to participate in teacher development activities. After incorporating gaming strategies and rewards including points, badges, and passports to workshops and teacher certification programs, participation at CTL events significantly increased. Additionally, the gamified system was so popular, other university organizations partnered with the CTL to offer programming. Before gamification, the CTL offered 19 workshops per semester in two series, and monthly event attendance averaged 25 participants. Currently, over 90 workshops are offered per semester in sixteen workshop series, and average attendance is over 300 participants per month.