VIKAS GOEL

Brief: Current discussions forums in MOOCs fail to be an effective medium in promoting engagement and learning among students. These forums contains lots of noise and unwanted data degrading the quality of overall discussions. Moreover these forums fail to creating new knowledge through diverse users’ interactions. We believe the threads created by quests in discussion forum should encourage other participants to contribute enthusiastically. It should creates socially conducive environment, which is fun and simultaneously promotes learning.For non-game context like MOOCs gamification can be used as a powerful motivational design tool. This is an exploratory project where established research in pedagogy has already proven most of the therories used to come up with system.