Originally Posted by
Miss Mae
Well, like I said, Jiro the gamification expert is the one most qualified to discuss this, since he is currently working on building a MOOC and writing a masters thesis on the gamification of MOOCs, but since he is taking a break from the forum at the moment...
Basically he is looking at improving the MOOC interface provided by edX, suggesting new learning activities that can be included and why they're important (steering away from the multiple choice that they lean on pretty heavily at the moment). Also discussing things like adding badges and achievements to the interface, user profiles to help students form more of an online identity and improving teacher/student communication to rectify the current power imbalances. Gamification and MOOCs are both reasonably new fields of study, so he's being a bit of a pioneer! It's been really interesting to hear about.