Approach–context–pedagogy coupling framework for game-based and gamified robotics education

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The review's organizing framework holds that instructional approach (GBL vs. gamification), learning context (formal vs. informal), and pedagogical model are coupled in robotics education: "GBL more prevalent in informal settings, while gamification dominated formal classrooms" and gamification "favored project-based learning". The framework maps three dominant pedagogies — experiential learning, project-based learning, and constructivist learning — onto approaches and contexts, with formal classrooms leaning toward PBL-driven designs and informal settings favoring experiential approaches with higher proportions of constructivist elements.

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• Approach–context–pedagogy coupling framework for game-based and gamified robotics education: The review's organizing framework holds that instructional approach (GBL vs. gamification), learning context (formal vs. informal), and pedagogical model are coupled in robotics education: "GBL more prevalent in informal settings, while gamification dominated formal classrooms" and gamification "favored project-based learning". The framework maps three dominant pedagogies — experiential learning, project-based learning, and constructivist learning — onto approaches and contexts, with formal classrooms leaning toward PBL-driven designs and informal settings favoring experiential approaches with higher proportions of constructivist elements. (Syed Tanzim Mubarrat et al. (2026))

Claims

• GBL approaches are more prevalent in informal settings while gamification dominates formal classrooms in robotics education [+M]
• Gamified robotics studies favor project-based learning while GBL studies favor constructivist pedagogy [+M]

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Key Sources

• Syed Tanzim Mubarrat, Byung-Cheol Min, Tianyu Shao, E. Cho Smith, Bedrich Benes, Alejandra J. Magana, Christos Mousas, and Dominic Kao. (2026). Game-Based and Gamified Robotics Education: A Comparative Systematic Review and Design Guidelines. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791338

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title	Approach–context–pedagogy coupling framework for game-based and gamified robotics education
description	The review's organizing framework holds that instructional approach (GBL vs.
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