A Framework for Structuring Learning Assessment in a Massively Multiplayer Online Educational Game: Experiment Centered Design

UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED INFORMATICS Serious Games for teaching and learning computer programming: Design, development and evaluation of a customizable educational Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)

The Jomini Engine: a historical MMORPG framework

This short paper discusses the design of the JominiEngine, a serious game engine for massive multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPG), designed as an educational tool for the learning history. The main design principles of the game engine are accuracy in the historic model, flexibility in the scope of content modeling and cover a wide range of historic periods, cooperative team-play embe...

Improving Computer Science Learning and Creating Community via MMOG Technology

Massively-Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) interfaces offer potential to foster community-centered interactions for online universities. Additionally, online game engines provide an excellent opportunity to explore computing topics in an engaging environment. Enrollment for online learning and virtual campuses is increasing as universities cope with growing demand for higher education. Current on...

Game design and learning: a conjectural analysis of how massively multiple online role-playing games (MMORPGs) foster intrinsic motivation

During the past two decades, the popularity of computer and video games has prompted games to become a source of study for educational researchers and instructional designers investigating how various aspects of game design might be appropriated, borrowed, and re-purposed for the design of educational materials. The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of how the structure in massive...

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) in the New Media Classroom

Recent research demonstrates that videogames enhance literacy, attention, reaction time, and higher-level thinking. Several scholars have suggested that massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) such as Everquest and Second Life have educational potential, but we have little data about what happens when such tools are introduced in the classroom. This paper reports findings from two MMO-based c...