AI AND GAMIFICATION FOR INCLUSIVE AND ENGAGING LEARNING: A PRELIMINARY SCOPING REVIEW

Abstract

This preliminary scoping review explores the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and gamification in education, aiming to map emerging evidence, implementation models, and good practices for teaching and learning. It examines how AI-based systems, adaptive feedback, learning analytics, and gameful design can support engagement, personalization, inclusion, and students’ active participation. Following a non-exhaustive review design, the contribution identifies recurrent application areas, pedagogical opportunities, and critical issues, and the risk of reducing motivation to automated rewards. The review argues for moving beyond a merely technical view of innovation, framing AI and gamification as educational mediators that require intentional design, methodological coherence, and attention to relational and affective dimensions. The outcome is a first conceptual map to inform future empirical research and teacher education.