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Serious Game to Enhance and Promote Youth Entrepreneurship (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractEntrepreneurship constitutes a key driver providing jobs and wealth creation. Besides, promoting entrepreneurship can play significant role to ensure the prosperity of a society. In this respect our article aims to foster entrepreneurship education, through focusing on the effectiveness of serious games as educational tools, whose goal supporting young people to actively being entrepreneurs. In this paper, we unveil the entrepreneurial context notably at the national level, where we high [...]

Mots-clés : Entrepreneurial learning, Learning process, Serious games, Entrepreneurship education

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Business Management Simulations - a detailed industry analysis as well as recommendations for the future (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract  Being exposed to serious games showed that some simulations widely vary in quality and learning outcome. In order to get to the bottom of best practices a detailed review of business management simulation literature was conducted. Additionally, an industry analysis was performed, by interviewing 17 simulation companies, testing a range of full and demo games, and conducting secondary research. The findings from both research efforts were then collated and crossreferenced against e [...]

Mots-clés : Business Management Simulation Game, Technology Enhanced Learning, Serious Gaming, Best Practice

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Requirements Engineering for Pervasive Games Based Smart Learning Systems (Diffusion de nos travaux)

The overlap of different features of pervasive games based smart learning systems (PGBSLSs) including the ludic aspect, the pervasive aspect and the educational aspect adds complexity to use requirements at design time and Runtime. Many methodologies and frameworks that make use of requirements models can be found in the literature, but very few of them use ontologies to ground the models that are used in PGBSLSs development. We propose in this paper a semantic model in the requirements engineer [...]

Mots-clés : Pervasive games, Smart Learning, Requirements Engineering, Ontology

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Comparing Voluntary and Mandatory Gameplay (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract Gameplay is commonly considered to be a voluntary activity. Game designers generally believe that voluntary gameplay is essentially different from mandatory gameplay. Such a belief may be a challenge for serious games, as instruction is usually mandatory. The article describes the outcomes of two experiments on the impact of voluntariness on the learning effect and enjoyment of a serious game. In the first experiment freedom of choosing to play a serious game was studied, with part [...]

Mots-clés : Serious games, Learning effect, Enjoyment, Mandatory play

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SUCCESS FACTORS IN FINNISH SERIOUS GAMES (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Serious games (SG) are computer-and video games with a primary focus other than entertainment. This is, they are made to educate, teach, inform and promote ideas. The current research focused on SGs' success factors and their emergence in SGs published in Finland in 2015. The research approach was qualitative and the research method was theory-based content analysis. First, the concepts of SG, SG design methodology and learning were discussed based on existing knowledge. Success factor related k [...]

Mots-clés : Serious game, Success factor, Gaming experience, Content implementation, Implementation process, Analysis framework

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Pokémon GO : perspectives pour la formation (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Pokémon GO a été lancé sur le marché français le 24 juillet 2016. Dédié aux smartphones et tablettes fonctionnant sous Android ou iOS, le jeu compte près de 45 millions d’utilisateurs dans le monde et 6 millions en France. Il pousse les utilisateurs, enfants et adultes, à sortir de chez eux pour chasser des Pokémons, des créatures virtuelles… Quels enseignements pour les futurs dispositifs d’ap [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Gaming, Jeu vidéo, Portable, Pokémon, Formation, Team Building, Scénario pédagogique, Ludopédagogie

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Game Dimensions and Pedagogical Dimension in Serious Games (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractDesigning serious games is a complex process because finding the right balance between the ‘serious' and the ‘game' dimensions is vital, as pointed out in some meta-analyses (Wouters, et al. 2013). If educational content prevails over the entertainment element, users' motivation may decrease and this can have a negative impact on the effectiveness of learning. On the other hand, if entertainment predominates over content, this can also limit learning opportunities. Another ma [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Design, Education, Jeux numériques, Models

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Apprendre avec les Serious Games ? (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Apprendre avec les Serious Games ?26 JUILLET 2016 / PRATIQUES Le dernier ouvrage de Julian Alvarez, Damien Djaouti et Olivier Rampnoux vient de paraître aux éditions Réseau Canopé. Sous un titre-question :“Apprendre avec les Serious Games ?” Son but : aider les formateurs et les enseignants à mieux utiliser le “jeu sérieux” en salle. Rencontre avec Julian Alvarez, auteur et contributeur de e-learning Letter… L [...]

Mots-clés : Serious Game, Ouvrage, Apprendre, Interview

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Using video games for volcanic hazard education and communication: an assessment of the method and preliminary results (Diffusion de nos travaux)

Abstract.  This paper presents the findings from a study aimed at understanding whether video games (or serious games) can be effective in enhancing volcanic hazard education and communication. Using the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, we have developed a video game – St. Vincent’s Volcano – for use in existing volcano education and outreach sessions. Its twin aims are to improve residents’ knowledge of potential future eruptive hazards (ash fall, pyroclasti [...]

Mots-clés : Volcan, Serious Game, Jeux vidéo

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DynaMus: a fully dynamic 3D virtual Museum framework (Diffusion de nos travaux)

AbstractThe evolving technologies of the game engines and the Web have reached a level of maturity that enables them to contribute significantly to the long-celebrated blending of culture and education with gaming. In this work, we present DynaMus, an innovative fully dynamic Web-based virtual museum framework that relies entirely on users’ creativity and on the exploitation of the rich content in distributed Web resources. DynaMus is able to connect to popular repositories, such as Europe [...]

Mots-clés : Dynamic, Virtual museum, Virtual exhibition, Game-based learning, Distributed data, Cultural resources

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