ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
SEN4551 | Gamification | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor BARIŞ YÜCE |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. ADEM KARAHOCA |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | Students will learn the basics of Gamification with a highly practical approach. Course focuses on how to design gamified experiences in real life areas such as game design, psychology, management, or education. The main goal of the course is to understand the principles of gamification to design experiences that make things more fun and engaging. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Identify basics of gamification. 2. Analyze gamified experiences in real life. 3. Identify principles of gamification. 4. Define game mechanics. 5. Identify systems for tracking in-game changes. 6. Describe critical elements on online experiences. |
This course will teach students the trends, and the frameworks of gamification, how it may be used to apply in IT projects, and how to use it effectively. The course allows students to develop a set of practical skills in using game elements using industrial case studies. Students will understand practical ways for designing a game. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | What is Gamification? | |
2) | Games | |
3) | Game Thinking | |
4) | Game Elements | |
5) | Psychology and Motivation I: Behaviorism | |
6) | Psychology and Motivation II: Beyond Behaviorism | |
7) | Gamification Design Framework | |
8) | Midterm Exam | |
9) | Design Choices | |
10) | Enterprise Gamification | |
11) | Social Good and Behavior Change / Midterm Exam | |
12) | Critiques and Risks | |
13) | Beyond the Basics | |
14) | Final Exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter, 2012, 978-1613630235 |
References: | Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham, 2011 978-1449397678 |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Laboratory | 2 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | % 10 |
Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 6 | 84 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Total Workload | 149 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |