Gamification as a didactic resource for university students during COVID-19

Gamification is a hybridization proposal that has been used to extrapolate the game experience in the educational field, mainly in confinement due to the biosafety measures proposed to combat COVID-19. Thus, this article shares a gamification proposal as a didactic resource developed in 2020, whose main objective was to promote cooperative learning through play during confinement, for undergraduate students in Sports at the National Pedagogical University. Two strategies were jointly developed: a) Integrated Theoretical Model of Gamification in E-Learning Environments (E-MIGA), which focuses on promoting playful environments, where the game promotes the typology of the actors (Who does it?), the motivation for learning (Why do you do?) and the creation and maintenance of expectations (How and what do you do?); and b) Game-Based Learning (GBL), seeking to stimulate self-care, empathy, self-demand and honesty. Finally, gamification, as a proposal for hybridization towards cooperative learning in university students, was established as a didactic resource in times of COVID-19, bringing together sport, education and learning through play as a transversal axis.