Essential features of serious games design in higher education: Linking learning attributes to game mechanics

Essential features of serious games design in higher education: Linking learning attributes to game mechanics

Mapping learning and game mechanics for serious games analysis

This paper presents findings emerging from the EU-Funded Games and Learning Alliance (GALA) Network of Excellence on serious games (SGs) that has a focus upon pedagogy-driven design of SGs. The overall framework presented in this paper concerns some elements that we consider key for the design of a new generation of more pedagogically-effective and easily author-able SGs: pedagogical perspectiv...

Game Mechanics Supporting Pervasive Learning and Experience in Games, Serious Games, and Interactive & Social Media

This workshop focuses on defining the mechanisms required for pervasive gameplay and interaction to inform, educate, and reflect with game supported learning. The objective is for participants to share, discuss and learn about existing relevant mechanisms for pervasive learning in a socially-nurtured Serious Game (SG) context. Research in SG, as a whole, faces two main challenges: understanding...

Virtual Sports Teacher - A Serious Game in Higher Education

Virtual Sports Teacher is a Serious Ga me which is being developed by sports scientists, computer scientists an d media scientists, funded by the HM WK (hessian Ministry of science and art). The primary target group of the gam e are physical education teacher st udents. In the gam e they can practice the procedure of a typical sport lesson, learn how to tr eat pupils and arrange different sport...

Game-Informed Learning: Applying Computer Game Processes to Higher Education

Computer games have made a significant cultural, social, economic, political, and technological impact on society (Newman 2004). Given the widespread popularity of video games, their ability to sustain long-term player engagement with challenging tasks (Gee 2003), and their tendency to elicit proactive player comm unities (Rheingold 1994), it should come as no great surprise that educators have...