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Game-based Learning (GBL) is an efficient approach to increase students' learning motivations. However, to develop a specially-designed educational game is time-consuming and limited to specific subject, which leads to high cost and low reusability problems. Integrating general purpose commercial games into educational context and subjects seems a potential approach but the pressing issue still is...
In this paper we discuss the construction of Martha Madison: Marvelous Machines, a serious video game designed to help students learn about the use of simple machines in the everyday world. Game participants are introduced to real-world, meaningful tasks that must be solved through the placement and manipulation of simple machines. The game provides in-game scaffolding and is played collaboratively...
We have found ourselves struggling with the design of digital technology to support scripted collaboration in science education. There are two emergent trends that challenge current understanding of collaborative scripts: One is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. The other is the...
The rapid development of mobile technologies is driving the evolution of e-learning to mobile-learning (m-learning), however; academic research on the impact of mobile-technologies on the learning process in higher education and instructional design guidelines based on a solid theoretical framework for mobile-learning has not yet been exhaustively covered. The focus of this paper is to compare mobile-learning...
This is a quasi-experiment of a collaborative learning classroom implementation that prioritized learners' focus-attention for instructors to have an optimal focus management. A Kinect-based learning activity through a theatre-like learning setting called Digital Learning Playground was held to create a simple focus combining learning content and the peer performance. The triangulated data included...
Collaboration and cooperation are fundamental activities and processes for humans. There has been a recent rise in the interest in collaborative and cooperative processes in several fields of study and an increasing popularity of commercial collaborative games. In this paper, we aim to identify how are collaboration and cooperation processes studied and promoted in the field of game research, with...
In this article we present a scenario describing a possible transformation of the places in charge to preserve our Cultural Heritage and to support our learning from the past: the museums. In a not-so-far future, we may assist to the opening of the museum-boxes, that blossomed and transformed in "museal fields", will spread into the territory in order to favor the integration of their content...
In non-formal settings, intrinsic motivation becomes a major issue to keep in mind when designing an educational game. To understand how to make motivating, entertaining and playful educational games, the Embodied Narratives technique has been used to co-design social games with children. This paper discusses the motivation of using this technique as well as some of the findings drawn from its application.
The TIMEMESH game, developed in the scope of the European Project SELEAG, is an educational game for learning history, culture and social relations. It is supported by an extensible, online, multi-language, multi-player, collaborative and social platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. The game has been already used, with remarkable success, in different European...
Instructional pervasive game (IPG) is an innovative way in accomplishing m-learning. It has been introduced by various literatures in the past few years. An important critic of IPG is that most game strategy does not take into consideration the anthropological data pertaining to the specific context of use. In response to this issue, we proposed a prototype of a meta-model which puts together several...
While some educators have adopted commercial off-the-shelf games for use in the classroom, such games may not always meet the individual requirements of lecturers whose courses are tied to specific learning outcomes. An alternative is to capitalise on in-house expertise in higher education and create serious games through cross-disciplinary team projects. This paper outlines such a project within...
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