Learning through gaming

Creating Effective Learning Environments and Learning Organizations through Gaming Simulation

Bio-edutainment: Learning life science through X gaming

Learning through gaming is one of the natural ways for knowledge and skill acquisition. This paper presents our work on bio-edutainment. Playing X games not only allows low age students to learn bio-molecular structure but also enables better understand complicated structure of bio-molecules. Immersive and interactive games may potentially motivate students to develop their interest to explore ...

Supporting Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning Through Kinect-Based Gaming

This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a Kinect-based game called Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to investigate possible contributions of game-based learning in a virtual language classroom at a state university in Ankara, Turkey. A quasi-experimental design where the treatment group (N= 26) was subjected to kinect-based learning environments, and the control group (N = 26) ...

E-Learning through Gaming: Unfolding Children’s Negotiation Skills

Almost half a century ago, Roberts & SuttonSmith (1962) started their influential paper “Child Training and Game Involvement” with: “Games are systemic culture patterns which are distinctive, ancient, and widespread...” (Roberts & Sutton-Smith, 1962). In their paper, they explain that games are of all times and places. Moreover, they illustrate the importance of games for our development both a...

Image Annotation Through Gaming

We introduce an interactive framework for image understanding, a game that is enjoyable and provide valuable image annotations. When people play the game, they provide useful information about contents of an image. In reality the most accurate method to describe the content of an image is manual labelling. Our approach is to motivate people to label imagers while entertaining themselves. Theref...