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¿Pueden los videojuegos jugar un papel relevante en educación? (Broacasting our studies)
The main goal of any educational institution is to form students as best as possible. To achieve it, traditional teaching models should be open to new learning experiences using emergent technologies such as video games, which offer a more attractive alternative to the student and a great capacity for interaction with knowledge. Studies based on this kind of initiatives show favorable results in terms of motivation and cognitive development. However, it is not&nb [...]Keywords : Serious games, Educational innovation, Video games-based learning
How enterprises play: Towards a taxonomy for enterprise gamification (Broacasting our studies)
Our research into the enterprise gamification domain was designed to investigate the different objectives, purposes, target audiences, game design patterns and technology used in gamified implementations. We found that a formal classification system was not only absent, but that it was essential to provide a baseline for developing and comparing gamification design strategies. To this purpose we identified 304 publicly available case studies of organizations that self-identified as having undert [...]Keywords : Taxonomy, Gamification, Enterprise systems, Classification, Design, Information systems, Strategic management, Serious games
Towards a Serious Game for Kurdish Language Learning (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: Language learning is a set of techniques and methods used together to teach fundamentals of a language, including writing, reading, listening and comprehension. Usually begins by teaching letters. The purpose of this research was to initiate a scientific approach using serious games in order to discover a proper way to learn Kurdish language by writing approach. We studied related fields i.e. level of using technology with elementary school students, the method of teaching Kurdish [...]Keywords : Serious game, Tutor intelligent, Kurdish language, Arami alphabets
Exploring and Upgrading the Educational Business-Game Taxonomy (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractThis article explores existing attempts to design a comprehensive and complex taxonomy framework for an educational business game intended to categorize and evaluate various properties. The identified missing elements in the current proposed taxonomies were used as a starting point for the design of a new category that addresses the game’s educational properties. The content of the proposed taxonomy category is presented and the properties selected are explained with regard to thei [...]Keywords : Educational business game, Education, Business game, Edugame
Serious Games for Education and Their Effectiveness for Higher Education Medical Students and for Junior High School Students (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract : Because of the quick advance of ICT, it is said that we should change the teaching method for the young generation grew up in the environment of ICT including video games, who are called digital natives. Accordingly, the authors made a project to validate that the serious game is actually effective for the education, which is the digital game that has other purposes besides enjoyments like education, training and so on and interest digital natives. This introduces a serious game [...]Keywords : Serious games, Mobile learning, Educational contents, Anatomy
Gamification in Factory Management Education - A Case Study with Lego Mindstorms (Broacasting our studies)
Research oriented teaching in universities provides opportunities to support the student's desire to explore. A student's learning success can benefit from gamified project work, especially when students face self-guided learning processes in demanding educational activities. Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-game context. Games offer the chance to improve the motivation of students, support group work, train communication skills and introduce the capacity for experime [...]Designing games for learning: An investigation of instructional designers, game designers, and teachers design decisions and epistemological beliefs (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Fields within education and training have been exploring the use of educational computer-based games, often referred to as serious games (SG), in multiple disciplines of academic research including the affective, cognitive, and psychomotor domains. Traditionally, game designers tend to represent a different viewpoint about learning than instructional designers, or even teachers. More so, one of the fundamental roles designers play in making decisions is based on multiple factors, w [...]Keywords : Serious games, Instructional levels, Epistemology
How Much Life do I Lose from the Plague? Educational Board Games as Teaching Tools in Archaeology and Ancient History Courses (Broacasting our studies)
This article describes the development, implementation, assessment, debriefing and outcomes, and potential uses of a university student-driven educational gaming project, as a major assessment item in an archaeology course entitled ‘Ancient Medicine’. Discussion of these various aspects of the project is explored in the context of educational gaming theory and practice. We demonstrate that educational board games not only represent an effective method for students to retain and conve [...]Keywords : Ancient history, Archaeology, Course design, Educational board games, Pedagogy
When digital technology storms the castle: serious games as a tool reflexion on heritage (Broacasting our studies)
In this article, we examine the way in which fourteen heritage sites use serious games as a tool for cultural education. Our three-step analysis model (input, process and outcome) addresses the types of content offered, the characteristics of the games and their cognitive, emotional and communicative aims. References (1): Alvarez J., Djaouti D. et Rampnoux O. (2011), Typologie des serious games, in Rufat S., Ter Minassian H. (dir.), Les Jeux vidéo comme objet [...]Keywords : Cultural heritage, Serious Game, Cultural education
OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS OF A CLASSROOM TEACHING AND LEARNING PRACTICE BASED ON AUGMENTED REALITY AND SERIOUS GAMES ON MOBILE PLATFORMS (Broacasting our studies)
This qualitative research is part of a learning effort to better understand how serious games are exploited in a science education context. The research team examined this issue by focusing on augmented reality as a technological innovation imbedded on a tablet. Given the current state of knowledge related to serious games and augmented reality, and given the fact that its use in the context of teaching/learning is not extended, this paper focuses on an initial exploration of how a new teaching [...]Keywords : Mobile learning, Augmented reality, Serious games, Design-based research, Physics