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Playing to Learn: Are you Serious? A Theoretical Discussion of the Relationship Between (Video) Games and Learning (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This article offers a theoretical discussion of the relationship between video games and education. Based on both a literature review of this field and a study of players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, this article presents the difficulties in the field of education of thinking of games as a space of learning and proposes various theoretical elements to address this issue. References (1): Michaud, L., & Alvarez, J. (2008). Serious games : Adverga [...]Keywords : Games, Education, Online games, Video games
Serious Games: an online collaborative database (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious games, classification, quantitative analysis
Do students trained using serious games become better sales representatives? an experiment to study the performance of academic serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This paper analyzes the potential of serious games for professional and pedagogical purposes and learning. To do this, the authors have questioned the efficiency of these games. They present an experiment conducted with 66 students trained in sales that compares a group of players with a group of non-players. The game’s impact on skills was studied from two angles: first from a theoretical point of view (based on the marks obtained in tests), and second from a practical point [...]Keywords : Serious Games, ICT efficiency, Experiment
Concevoir un serious game pour un dispositif de formation (Book reference)
Unlike what is stated in its title ("how to design a serious game for training courses"), this book doesn't explain how to design a Serious Game, but how to hire someone to create a Serious Game for you (i.e. how to be an "aware client" regarding Serious Games). After a short definition of what a Serious Game is, this book details very clearly the different ways to integrate a Serious Game inside a training course (advantages of Serious Games, how they work with other methods [...]Keywords : serious game, ordering, client, project management
Serious Games et apprentissage par projets (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, education, creation
Serious Games ou l'évaluation par le gameplay (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, player tracking, assessment
Outils et techniques pour le Serious Game : moteurs propriétaires et usines à jeuxOutils et techniqu (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious games, master class, game design, tools
Round Table: R&D au service des Serious Games : Evaluation / Assessment (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : round table, r&d, serious game
Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (Broacasting our studies)
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce an overall classification system for Serious Games. ?The intention of this classification is to guide people through the vast field of Serious Games by providing them with a general overview. For example, it may appeal to teachers who wish to find games with strong educational potential though they may be outside the “edugames” field. This chapter will start by discussing the definition of Serious Games, and define them as having a combinat [...]Keywords : serious games, definition, classification