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Gamification as transformative assessment in Higher Education
Gamification in education is still a very new concept in South Africa. Being a 21st-century
invention, it has already established itself in the world within the environs of the corporate
market, marketing, training and the social world. This article will first discuss gamification
(and all its other designations) and its applications in general; thereafter, the focus will be on
the application of gamification within the environment of education, and more specifically
with an emphasis on assessment. The burning question for South Africa is whether
gamification can enhance a module or course on the level of higher education so much that an
educational institution cannot do without it anymore, knowing that we are working with
students belonging to the ‘Digital Wisdom generation’. This article would like to open the
way for the implementation of gamification as a transformative online assessment tool in
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Towards Innovation Democracy? Participation, Responsibility and Precaution in Innovation Governance.
Innovation is about more than technological invention. It involves change of many kinds: cultural, organisational and behavioural as well as technological. So, in a world crying out for social justice and ecological care, innovation holds enormous progressive potential. Yet there are no guarantees that any particular realised innovation will necessarily be positive. Indeed, powerful forces ‘close down’ innovation in the directions favoured by the most privileged interests. So harnessing the positive transformative potential for innovation in any given area, is not about optimizing some single self-evidently progressive trajectory in a ‘race to the future’. Instead, it is about collaboratively exploring diverse and uncertain pathways – in ways that deliberately balance the spurious effects of incumbent power. In other words, what is needed is a more realistic, rational and vibrant ‘innovation democracy’