Virtual Sports Teacher - A Serious Game in Higher Education

Virtual Sports Teacher is a Serious Ga me which is being developed by sports scientists, computer scientists an d media scientists, funded by the HM WK (hessian Ministry of science and art). The primary target group of the gam e are physical education teacher st udents. In the gam e they can practice the procedure of a typical sport lesson, learn how to tr eat pupils and arrange different sport exercises. A Game Master, the cours e teacher of a university tutorial, can adapt the game at runtime according to the player’s performance. The Game Master is able to view important statistics, to modify difficulty or to trigger game events. In Section 1, we explain the need for new forms of teaching like Serious Games. In Section 2, we present the gam e Virtual Sports Teacher, followed by a detailed description of the didactical and Game Mastering concept in Section 3. In Section 4 we conclude with an overview of future work.