This Online and Distance Education Grant was designed to help third- and fourth-year students who are struggling to find engagement and motivation to advance from the undergraduate foreign language requirement to the 200 level.
Instructional Challenges
- The course exhibited high enrollment but low engagement.
- Many students who begin the course don’t complete it.
- Grade distribution is low.
- Students struggle to keep up with the schedule, working close to important due dates.
Highlights/Solutions
- Develop Progress Bars and distribute Learning Passport Stamps/Badges to track and reward accomplishments.
- Emulate everyday life in Spanish with a Unity 3D city. Unity reads and reveals models and animations based on a student’s progress. There are potential applications beyond this course.
- Utilize Moodle gamification by adding preferred and required due dates and applying different rewards for each.
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