Digital Pedagogies for Sustainable Futures: The Role of Gamification to Enhance Student Learning

This chapter explores whether gaming can provide a clear route to undergraduate students engaging with and understanding sustainability issues in business and management. A qualitative evaluation survey of gamification in the classroom was undertaken by 106 students across 3 years of study to identify what specific elements of gamification was successful in engaging and motivating them and how it can translate in sustainability education. By understanding student perspectives on game based learning (GBL), this research aimed to explore the use of this digital pedagogy to identify the potential of gamification for increased student motivation, engagement and learning. The findings demonstrated that students mostly enjoyed using gamification in the classroom but with a sizable number undecided on its use. Student’s alluded that they would benefit more from the experience should technical support be available at a tutor level which was inconsistent across the 3 years of study.