MEIO : uma rede social gamificada para engajamento de ações da educação ambiental

Abstract

We present MEIO, a gamified social network which was developed under the hypothesis that its use can positively impact the engagement of ordinary citizens on actions focused on Environmental Education, as well as acting as a vehicle for social empowerment in solving environmental problems. Using the concepts of Gamification and Mobile Learning, the development of the MEIO tool was based on Werbach and Hunter gamification design framework. Our main objective is to analyze the environmental engagement of a group of secondary students through an educational experience based on mobile devices. Using the action research methodology as a methodology, were submitted to evaluative questionnaires, and participated in tests with MEIO for a period of ten days. We present statistics for this experiment, in particular the calculation of an engagement metric. We verified that the engagement was positive in relation to students who already practiced Environmental Education, but it was not possible to engage students who did not have this practice. More visible impacts on this behavior must go through new cycles of experiences are needed in order to obtain a more visible impact on behavior of the users, and that technological limitations faced by mobile users must be taken into account.