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Darina Dicheva
Researcher at Winston-Salem State University
Publications - 125
Citations - 3243
Darina Dicheva is an academic researcher from Winston-Salem State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Topic Maps & Semantic Web. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 119 publications receiving 2703 citations. Previous affiliations of Darina Dicheva include Sofia University.
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Gamification in Education: A Systematic Mapping Study
TL;DR: A study of the published works on the application of gamification to education aims to shed light on the tendencies and emerging practices in this area by presenting a thematic analysis instead of narrative summaries that focus on a qualitative review.
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Gamifying education: what is known, what is believed and what remains uncertain: a critical review
Christo Dichev,Darina Dicheva +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the use of gamification in education, highlighting the need for systematically designed studies and rigorously tested approaches to confirm the educational benefits of gamified learning.
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The New Challenges for E-learning: The Educational Semantic Web
Lora Aroyo,Darina Dicheva +1 more
TL;DR: A modular semantic-driven and service-based interoperability framework, in order to open up, share and reuse educational systems’ content and knowledge components, and focuses on content creation by proposing ontology-driven authoring tools that reflect the modularization in the educational systems.
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From Gamification to Gameful Design and Gameful Experience in Learning
TL;DR: A survey of the main approaches employed in gamification and the emerging new directions in the context of the relevant motivational psychology and pedagogy is presented, with a focus on the motivational factors that impact learning and understanding of behavior change.