Getting Serious About Serious Games: Best Practices for Computer Games in Reading Classrooms

Serious computer games in computer science education

The role and importance of serious computer games in contemporary educational practice is presented in this paper as well as the theoretical fundamentals that justify their use in different forms of education. We present a project for designing and developing serious games that take place within the curriculum for computer science teachers’ education as an independent project work in teams. In ...

Serious Assessments in Serious Games

Serious Games

This special issue highlights some of the best of emerging research in using video games for serious purposes. Although “serious games” is a new term, such games have been around for many years in the form of training simulators for vehicle control, such as flight simulators, and other types of simulation technologies. Through game constructs, we can simulate realistic situations to provide val...

Designing Serious Games for getting transferable skills in training settings

Nowadays, serious games are present in almost every educational context. The current work deals with the design of serious games oriented towards getting transferable skills in different kinds of training settings. These games can be a valuable way of engaging citizens and workers in the learning process by means of metaphors or similar mechanisms close to their user experience. They also conta...

Serious Games for Learning

Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren en de samenstelling van de pro-motiecommissie is als volgt: voorzitter: prof. dr. ir. Het onderzoek of ontwerp dat in dit proefschrift wordt beschreven is uitgevoerd in overeenstemming met de TU/e Gedragscode Wetenschapsbeoefening.