Trends in Educational Games Development

Educational Games in Control

Basic control courses are often attended by students from many different study programs. Many of these students are mainly interested in solving practical problems, whereas the lecturer usually aims at teaching profound knowledge of the analysis and control of dynamical systems. This gap between the application-oriented expectation of the learner and the theoryfocused material chosen by the lec...

GAMES IN FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS Obstacles for the development and use of learning games

Development of a Quality Evaluation Standard for Educational Serious Games

Given the lack of suitable quality evaluation standards for educational serious games (designed for both entertainment and instruction), we designed a development framework for evaluation standards of educational serious games and proceeded to develop standards in accordance with our proposed procedure. Our standards were designed to evaluate the quality of both technical and non-technical elem...

Assessing Persistence in Educational Games

In this chapter, we describe how assessing persistence in educational games can be useful in enhancing learning. We describe Newton’s Playground (NP), a 2D video game aimed at helping students understand qualitative physics. The goal across all of the 74 puzzles in NP is for the player to guide a green ball to a red balloon. The primary way to move the ball is by drawing on the screen with a mo...

Simulating Learners in Educational Games

Educational business games can be of a great help for initial and continuous learning. These games have as major asset the possibility for learners to intervene or act as they wish. Nevertheless, there are numerous possible paths in such games. Designing the appropriate game structure and defining the optimum parameters so as to achieve the pedagogical objectives of business games is not straig...