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Distribution of the studies per publication year. Most of the studies reviewed (16 out of 26) were carried out in undergraduate programmes (Figure 3).
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Gamified Flipped Learning (GFL), a pedagogical approach that combines the methodology of flipped learning with gamification techniques, has gained increasing attention in recent years, particularly within the context of higher education. This systematic literature review aims to provide educators and researchers with a comprehensive understanding o...
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... the search in academic databases was not limited to a specific time frame, it is noteworthy that most of the studies have been published after 2020 (Figure 2). The rationale for favouring undergraduate courses is likely attributable to their usually larger student population, as these allow researchers to have sufficient participants for their investigations, especially in the context of quantitative and mixed methods research, the only methodological approaches adopted among the selected studies. ...
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... most of the studies (18 out of 26), the course was delivered in blended learning mode (Figure 4). Blended learning can be defined as a combination of teaching strategies that incorporates digital technologies into teaching practices, occupying an intermediate position between fully online and fully face-to-face delivery modes ( Wang et al., 2015); instead, hybrid learning happens when online and in-person learning are offered at the same time and learners can choose to attend online or in-person (Marey et al., 2022). The fully online delivery mode (7 studies out of 26, 26.9%) was the only one adopted during the pandemic, due to the restrictions imposed by the authorities. ...
