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Games and Gamification: Activating Student Learning Through Play √ § Ͼ

Learn how your colleagues are using games to engage students

Location

Online

Date & Time

November 6, 2025, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

How can playing games and gamifying learning activities enhance student motivation and learning? Gamification techniques can motivate students and enhance retention while creating an engaging classroom experience. Games offer students immediate feedback, often in the moment, as they build their critical thinking skills, so they can recognize their developing skills, experience a sense of accomplishment, and gain motivation for additional learning. Further, when created as an immersive experience, gamification creates opportunities for deeply examining perspectives, thinking and contributing in the moment, and delving into complex challenges. In this session, we'll explore the benefits of using games and gamifying activities with examples from Steven McAlpine (INDS) and Kerri Evans (SOWK).

Please click "Going Virtually" below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

There will be two sessions, Wednesday, November 5 in person and Thursday, November 6 online. Please register for ONE session only. Only one session can count toward the ALIT or INNOVATE Certificate programs. 

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Ͼ CIRTL graduate students are invited to attend the November 6 virtual session only

Part of the FDC Advanced Topics Series
Launched in September 2021!

Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to ...
  • Identify how to integrate complex learning science applications into your course design and delivery,
  • Challenge your higher order thinking skills to investigate and assess new ways to foster student success, and
  • Connect and collaborate with colleagues seeking to create exemplary learning exercises and environments across courses and learning opportunities.
All faculty are welcome to attend, especially those who...
  • aspire to complicate and build on core pedagogical knowledge shared in other FDC programs, or
  • wish to cultivate and apply learning research to innovative, engaging, and effective classroom practices.
Photo provided by Kerri Evans.
Four college students sitting around a table in a classroom with board game pieces on the table.