Afet Akademi is a digital, adaptive disaster education platform designed using the ADDIE instructional design model. Its goal is to increase disaster awareness through gamification while repositioning the teacher as a data-informed learning designer.

Purpose

Although disaster education is critical for fostering safe behavior and social solidarity, traditional approaches often fail to reach all learners equitably due to limitations in time, materials, and teacher workload. This work presents Afet Akademi as a scalable, learning-analytics–driven digital platform that aims to enhance disaster awareness through gamification and support teachers in making evidence-based instructional decisions.

Target Audience

Primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary students; teachers and academics; and educators who wish to integrate disaster education into their courses.

Overview of the Practice

Afet Akademi (www.afetakademi.com.tr) delivers 48 learning outcomes via quizzes, matching tasks, scenarios, strategy games, reading activities, and time-based games. Teachers enroll students using class codes and monitor progress through anonymized dashboards. An SM-2–based adaptive engine estimates students’ mastery for each outcome, recommends suitable game types for weaker areas, and schedules repetitions. The adaptive structure supports growth without relying on grades or ranking, and makes the “From Past to Future Teacher” theme concrete by shifting the teacher’s role from content delivery to the design of learning experiences. The platform is browser-based, free to use, and aligned with data protection regulations through anonymized data collection.

Outcomes and Implications

The model offers a repeatable digital framework that aims to foster safe behavior and disaster awareness among students. Teachers can track overall class progress and weak outcomes anonymously, and redesign subsequent lessons with targeted games or discussion-based activities when many students struggle with a specific outcome. The scalable digital structure is intended to reduce teacher workload, strengthen instructional processes through learning analytics, and contribute to digital equity in education. Future research will focus on classroom impact studies examining learning gains and behavioral outcomes associated with data-informed, game-based disaster education.