digital game based learning
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Gaming LearningGBL
Gamification
SeriousGames
Digital Game Based Learning Edutainment
Game Based Learning Gamification Learning Games
Serious Games
Related Terms
• GBL – game play with learning outcomes• Gamification – applying game elements in
non-game context• Serious game – games designed for serious
purpose• Edutainment – Education + entertainment
DGBLExamples
Entertaining GamesLearning Games
Harry Potter Game
• Play the game at home• Select one character• Write essay
Gazzilionaire
Gazzilionaire
• www.lavamind.com/gaz.html• Game goal: fly in space, trade, make gazillion
kubars, win the game• Business education goals: buy low, sell high,
earn profit• http://youtu.be/X7HEUE8qt9A
Gazzilionaire
JA Titan
JA Titan
• newtitan.ja.org• Business education goals (supported by Titan):– Demand and supply and market balance– Productivity– Marketing– Research and development– Budgeting
• http://youtu.be/iKg-9Qb8N1k
Time Mesh History Game
www.timemesh.eu
Game for teaching history of Europe
Goals of the History Curriculum
• Rise the interest• Understand main terminology of history• Acquire chronological framework• Know the map• Understand the connections between present and past• See the connections between different historical events• Understand that one event can be interpreted differently• Develop skills needed for justifying personal opinion• Put learners in the position of people lived in the past
Important Processes that Shaped Europe During Last 600 Years
• Reformation• French revolution• Industrial revolution• The born of nation based countries• Maritime History and Colonial countries• I World war• II World war• Cold war• European Union• Collapse of the Soviet Union
Time Mesh - Industrial Revolution – Scene 2
Goal of the Time Mesh Game
• The present time in the game is different from the reality e.g. kids are not in schools but working
• Some important events have not taking place• Player has to go back in time and fix the history– to influence important historical actors– to ensure that historical events will take place
• At the same time they learn important issues from that period
• http://youtu.be/1iBETuFUKIU
Eco House
Energy saving simulatorhttp://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/Energy saving simulatorhttp://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/
Eco House
Busy Workers
http://vahur.net/busyworkers/game.html
CIA World Factbook
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.alexneil.worldquiz
Color Space
www.tlu.ee/~priitpu/colorspace/ColorSpaceFinalWEB.html
More Examples
Can you recommend a game for learning?
More Examples• siLang language learning game - www.si-lang.net• 2048 calculus game - gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048• Traveler IQ Challenge geographical game
- www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq • Geoguesser geographical game – geoguessr.com• Light Boot logics game - lightbot.com/hocflash.html • Climate Challenge business simulator -
www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge
• EnvKids - http://ohmpro.org/envkids/pilots/Energy_demonstrator.html
GBL + R&D ?
How to integrate game based learning with research and design?
DLG + R&D
• Research based game design – research projects (e.g. participatory design)
• Asking students to design serious games (project based learning + action research)
• Creating serious games as data collection instruments (e.g. Fold.it)
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Links Books and Courses
seriousgames.net
GBL Literature
Digital Learning Games
www.facebook.com/digitallearninggames
Design of Serious Games
• Tallinn Summer School• One week course• 10-14 July 2017• In English• To teachers, designers, developers, writers, artists, …• summerschool.tlu.ee