The Character of Successful Trainings with Serious Games

The Character of Successful Trainings with Serious Games

This paper gives a basic guideline for the development of trainings using serious games. It describes a framework for the training with serious games. It shows how to define a training goal and describes the process of learning to reach this goal. It points out a methodology how to design successful trainings with serious games.

Creative Learning with Serious Games

In this paper, we describe the structure and content of a proposed workshop to discuss innovative methodological approaches to Serious Games for creative learning. A special emphasis is given to state-of-the-art research work and cross-discipline approaches (e.g. the mix of Storytelling and Serious Games). In addition, different case studies coming from very different European (research) projec...

Learning programming with serious games

Students who are learning to program often have difficulties understanding cognitively complex concepts. Teaching programming is mainly focused on the syntax and features of programs, rather than to a deeper understanding of programming constructs and abstract concepts. Computer game stimulates active learning and presentation of learning content in a variety of contexts that are funny and enga...

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...