Abstract
This paper describes a cryptocurrency to reward students for their studies. The currency bears the apt name Smileycoin or SMLY and is used within the tutor-web online learning platform. In order to make the SMLY attractive to students several approaches have been used, including support from companies whose services can be purchased for SMLY. The paper describes the use of the SMLY as a reward mechanism in a large undergraduate calculus course, including student adoption, student use of SMLY, coinbase use for education in low-income areas, and response to abuse.
Highlights
The tutor-web is a freely accessible online platform for learning.1 the system contains general educational material, the main feature is a drilling subcomponent
The very short experiment at the end of fall semester, November 2014, demonstrated the feasibility of including SMLY in the tutor-web and allocating to students. During those first few weeks there was no way to determine a price to attach to the SMLY nor was there any way to guess the likely number of students who would use the open platform to earn SMLY
The traditional reward mechanisms in education have ranged from a pat on the back or a smiley on the student’s drawing through exam grades, but as discussed above, experiments have been conducted using hard currency, e.g. in the form of paying students for grades or for time spent
Summary
The tutor-web is a freely accessible online platform for learning. the system contains general educational material (slides, handouts), the main feature is a drilling subcomponent. The tutor-web is a freely accessible online platform for learning.. The system contains general educational material (slides, handouts), the main feature is a drilling subcomponent. A student logs in to download sets of drill items on given topics using a mobile web interface.. The system forms an adaptive learning environment, which has been demonstrated to increase student learning, and has been used as a general vehicle for research on educational technology.. Any educational system eventually needs to have a component to evaluate student performance and the tutor-web is no exception. Such an evaluation will result in a grade, which is a reward for the student. The purpose of the study reported here is to investigate an alternative model for student rewards
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