Gamification techniques can be used in the classroom to motivate and engage students significantly. “Web Page Production and Practical Training” is a compulsory course for secondary computer majors with solid practicality. In the context of education, this study shows how gamification has the potential to increase engagement and promote higher-order learning. However, according to the actual survey results so far, the teaching effect of this course could be more satisfactory because it has not stimulated students’ motivation to learn. Because of this urgent problem, this paper combines Professor Keller’s ARCS motivation model with gamification teaching to construct gamified teaching based on ARCS motivation mode. It is applied to actual teaching, and the results show that this model can improve the motivation level of middle vocational computer students to learn the “Web Page Production and Practical Training” course.
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