This document discusses using gamification in education. It proposes including creativity in university self-regulations and assessment systems to encourage innovative teaching methods using games. Specifically, it promotes expanding the "Legal Games" project, which uses traditional games to teach law in a fun way. Results for students include increased learning, self-assessment, and contact with course material. However, adopting this methodology fully requires overcoming professors' unfamiliarity with it and securing resources. The proposal is to update self-regulations and codes of conduct to value blended learning models and ludic teaching methods, incentivizing professors to innovate and attracting sponsor support.

1. Web-meeting on ICT & EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT/MEDIA
SUPPORTS SERVICES
EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities)
9:25 hs 22th April 2016
Mª Teresa Bendito Cañizares
Professor of Civil Law – Faculty of Law-UNED
-Obstacles for extend gamification in
the traditional education environment
-Self-regulation for electronic games

2. Why gamification is IMPORTANT in
learning?
What is ITS added value?
THE ANIMUS IOCANDI

3. Gamification is a way of appealing and gaining the
loyalty of students and professors since…
• Learners manage their talents during leisure time; and
• Educators improve their creativity during teaching time

4. Think about this
cocktail
Cocktail “Humour-game-science”
H
G
HOW are these goals
achieved?

5. Our philosophy is…
“If learning is a game during
childhood,
why not continue playing?”
THEREFORE…

6. HOW to do it
Using traditional games
irespective of the format
Have a look, please

8. “Legal games”, as a model of gamification, was
born in UNED
• First in 2002, in paper format • In 2013, as e-book and Apps

9. This App is the last development of
Legal Games. Here you can find a
demo

10. WHAT’S ABOUT THE RESULTS OF LEGAL GAMES?
Pretty good for students and Professors :
1) more to teach and to learn
2) a model of Self-assessment
3) they get closer to each other (monitoring)
4) students keep in contact with the matter, since it is easier for them to take materials and use them anywhere
BUT
NOT pretty good FOR CREATORS two reasons:
1) NEED FOR PROFESSORS TO GET
COSTUMED TO USE THIS METHODOLOGY IN
LAW MATTERS
2) RESOURCES AND FUNDS

11. To get the Universities’ commitment and agreement to give CREATIVITY
a relevant role in the creation of learning pedagogical materials as an
element of our SELF-REGULATIONs or Code of conducts
WHAT IS THE PROPOSAL I SUBMIT TO YOU in order
to extend projects like“Legal games”?
Why?

12. At present, self-regulations in our Universities do not
consider “creativity” as an element to make blended
learning pedagogical models.
If the envisaged self-regulation supports innovations
based on ludic methods of teaching, such as “Legal
Games”, the use of such methods would be valorized by
our assessment systems, in such a way that …
Professors would be encouraged to innovate when
teaching; and
Sponsors would give support to projects alike