Presentation Panel
Gamified, Co-Created and Microlearned: A Recipe to Engage University Students?
Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time – RoomTiergarten I/II/III
Today’s students are digital natives, and avatars and quests are the reality of their daily life. Join this session if you want to create a learning environment that not only uses gamification in a reflected manner but also involves the learners in the process. If you’re hesitant, then come and find out about the outcomes of introducing gamification compared to those of a traditional online learning setting!
Bodo Hoenen
Late Co-Founder & US CEO, Nolej, United States of America
Bodo Hoenen is a collective intelligence scientist and serial entrepreneur whose previous startup’s include an LMS that was taken on by Google. Since then, he’s been developing a Collective Intelligence Engine to rapidly accelerate the rate at which we can learn and apply that learning to innovate.
Nejma Belkhdim
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Nolej, France
Nejma Belkhdim is a cognitive scientist and former lecturer at the University of Paris X. She used to work at Meta, Facebook and HP, and since then she’s been developing NOLEJ, a Collective Intelligence Engine to build more engaging and effective ways to learn with high impact and adoption from the end users
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Natalie Fritz
Research Associate, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Natalie Fritz is a research associate at the Institute for German Studies in the Department of Medieval Studies at Technische Universität Braunschweig. She is working on the "Parzival 2.0" project, which involves integrating a digital gamified learning platform into the medieval studies curriculum.
Johanna Braun
Head of Teaching Center, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Johanna Braun is leading the Teaching Center at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich that focuses on online learning, online assessment and innovation in teaching. Before joining the University of Zurich, she worked in Strategy Consulting at Deloitte Consulting.
Moderator
Yaping Gao
Senior Academic Director, Member Services & Partnerships, Quality Matters, United States of America
With a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction and concentration on instructional design and educational technology, Dr Gao has over 25 years’ experience in higher education, both in China and USA, as faculty, instructional designer, LMS manager, and online education administrator.
Dr Gao believes quality course and program design supported by research and institutional resources facilitates effective instruction, promotes student engagement and active learning, lays the foundation for student success, and supports institutional accreditation and advancement.
Since the COVID pandemic started, Dr Gao has been invited to give keynotes, featured speeches, presentations, webinars, panel sessions, and workshops for higher education communities at dozens of international conferences and events hosted by many countries on topics relating to remote teaching, online education, digital learning, academic integrity, student engagement, best practices in online teaching, assessment redesign for online courses, and quality assurance, among others.
In her current position as Senior Academic Director of Member Services and Partnerships at Quality Matters (QM), USA, Dr. Gao leads and oversees QM’s member services for 1500+ member institutions globally, and leads external collaborations and partnerships.
Dr. Gao earned her doctoral degree from Baylor University, Texas, USA, and her Master and Bachelor degrees from Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.