{"id":5486,"date":"2025-03-13T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/reaching-a-high-degree-of-classroom-engagement-through-game-based-learning-2.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:53:51","slug":"reaching-a-high-degree-of-classroom-engagement-through-game-based-learning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/blog\/reaching-a-high-degree-of-classroom-engagement-through-game-based-learning-2","title":{"rendered":"Reaching a high degree of classroom engagement through game based learning in Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We strongly believe and all our participants agree with us that game-based learning is one of the best ways to learn. At the same time it is a really fun way of teaching!
The week from 6th to 12th of February we welcomed in Bologna our participants Manuel and Juan from IES El Doctoral<\/strong>, Stephen from Inicijativa za engleski jezik i kulturu<\/strong>, Gruia and Alexandra from Special School no.3<\/strong>, Cristina and Andreea from Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala SF.NICOLAE<\/strong>, Edyta, Paulina, Aneta and Gabriela from Publiczna Szko\u0142a Podstawowa w Krzeszowie G\u00f3rnym<\/strong>. Their training week was constructed like a game, following a sequence of levels from the very beginning. We started solving riddles and discovering the secrets of Bologna during the Sunday walking tour and we continued engaging in challenges and adventures throughout our \u201cweekly game<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u200bAs if we were starting to play a video game, we asked participants to create their own characters to join the game. Avatars, symbolic characters and new superheroes<\/strong> were thus used as a basis to get to know each other, including strengths and passions. It became even more noticeable how rich and diverse<\/strong> our group was, perfectly reflecting the reality of every class at school.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u200b\u200bDuring the first level we discussed the\u00a0pedagogical value of playing<\/strong>\u00a0and how games stimulate learning. We reflected and acknowledged that teachers are most of the time \u201cdigital immigrants\u201d in an educational cosmos that is nowadays populated by\u00a0digital natives<\/strong>\u00a0only.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Through a challenge on the differences between gamification and game-based learning<\/strong>, our \u201cplayers\u201d could better clarify that gamification applies game elements into a non-game environment while game-based learning is a teaching approach whereby learning happens through playing the game itself.\u00a0<\/div>\n
As the main outcome of the second level, \u201cplayers\u201d defined the most common gamification framework as the process through which 8 major internal and external motivators influence human engagement<\/strong>. During one of the practical activities, players engaged in a role-play where they acted like the most common types of video games players, reaching a hands-on understanding of game-driven motivation.<\/div>\n
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The third level was dedicated to game-based tools and apps<\/strong>. We listed and actively explored several traditional games and we reframed them all together into more engaging learning tools. After all the challenges and battles, \u201cplayers\u201d had an opportunity to create their own tools both offline and online.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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In the penultimate level, \u201cplayers\u201d lived the most active and engaging experience. We went outside to enjoy a scavenger hunt<\/strong> game in the city center and later we were locked in a digital escape room<\/strong> trying to solve riddles and puzzles to escape. Participants finally tried to find the best way to gamify their own classrooms taking into account their students\u2019 needs and charcateristics.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u200bHaving overcome all the levels of our game, participants had the opportunity to learn new ways of making the most of the most traditional games to\u00a0transform the learning process<\/strong>. They also got acquainted with modern online tools able to produce a significant improvement of students\u2019 engagement and\u00a0bring a spark in the classroom<\/strong>!<\/div>\n
Discover more about the course on Gamification and Game-based Leraning on our website<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We strongly believe and all our participants agree with us that game-based learning is one of the best ways to learn. At the same time it is a really fun way of teaching!The week from 6th to 12th of February we welcomed in Bologna our participants Manuel and Juan from IES El Doctoral, Stephen from… Read More »Reaching a high degree of classroom engagement through game based learning in Bologna<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bologna","category-course-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12257,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}