by Michelle Corvette, Ph.D. and Sarah Andreas, Ph.D.
Michelle Corvette currently serves as the inaugural Director of Faculty Development and Immersive Learning at William Peace University. Her research interests include equity-minded teaching, high-impact practices, and reflective practices.
Sarah Andreas serves as an Assistant Professor in Business Management and Related Technologies at Kent State University. Her work focuses on how individuals experience leadership development.
Sustaining student motivation about learning and engaging them in classrooms can be arduous with various distractions vying for their attention. Implementing gamification ungrading assessment strategies helps transform courses into exciting, challenging, and achievable opportunities for growth. Gamification ungrading is a set of practices that explore students’ self-determination and agency in the course through applied Universal Design Principles emphasizing multiple pathways for success and engagement promoting equity and inclusion for diverse learners. Join us as we explore the possibilities of gamification ungrading to help reduce negative student emotions, increase student focus on learning, and increase students’ actual learning in the classroom.