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
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Keywords : Entrepreneurial learning, Learning process, Serious games, Entrepreneurship education
This technical paper details the development of a board game designed to help technical communication students understand scrum-based agile project management, as well as assist practitioners in introducing scrum management to a team unfamiliar with the process. I ground the development and design of the game with a literature review of scholarship on agile project management, games in education and business, and collaboration. I present my methodology in the form of a game design document (GDD)
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Keywords : Board game, Design, Scrum, Education, Methodology, Game design
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, pyroclastic
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Keywords : Volcanic, Serious game, Videogames
The online game's commercial success and the influence on user behavior, led us to consider developing applications with games features in order to investigate which variables and features that could influence in e-banking adopting. The topic of games and business, lead us to a main research question, "What is the impact of computer applications with game features in e-banking?", and two other questions, "Which elements, characteristics or variables of games on e-bank
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Keywords : e-Commerce , Gamification, Online games, Software development, Information technology, Web design, Technology acceptance, e-Banking
==========================Résumé de la présentation de Julian Alvarez ========================== Cette communication s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une démarche globale visant in fine à évaluer quels types d’accompagnements et dans quelles proportions un formateur pourrait avoir besoin lorsqu’il convoque le jeu comme médiation. Pour cela, il convient selon nous de commencer par établir un premier modèle p
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Keywords : Serious game, Evaluation, Model, Serious gaming, Edugame, Activity, Learning, Game Based Learning
Public Transport supports independence and encourages social, educational and vocational inclusion. It is a sure means to gain access to the city, services and activities. However, using fixed-route requires knowledge and know-how that all travelers, such as people with intellectual disabilities, do not master. While for most of us learning to travel is done through personal experience, for people with intellectual disabilities there is a need for travel training in order to build up travel expe
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Keywords : Intellectual Disabilities, Fixed-Route, Travel-Training, Public Transportation Requirement, Serious Game
Rencontre "A l'intersection du jeu et de l'apprentissage" le 25 mai 2016© Droits réservésLe 25 mai 2016, le Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) et le Service d’accompagnement aux pédagogies innovantes (Sapiens) de USPC vous invitent à rencontrer et échanger avec Julian Alvarez, Antoine Taly et Alexandre Mignon sur le thème « A l'intersection du jeu et de l'apprentissage ». Programme de la rencontre12h30 &n
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Keywords : Serious game, Edugame, Game based learning, Education
====================Résumé de la communication==================== Cette communication a pour objectif de présenter le concept de Datagame, une catégorie de Serious Game associée à des échanges de données et de nous questionner sur la possibilité d'utiliser ce type de jeu pour aider l'enseignant à se représenter l'apprenant situé à distance. Approche importante dans un contexte de formation &agr
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Keywords : Datagame, Typology, Definition, Data Base, Serious Game
ABSTRACT With more than 1.5 billion gamers around the world as of the end of 2015, with further growth projected as mobile devices achieve greater market penetration, there has been a great deal of interest in using games for purposes beyond entertainment. However, gamification and serious games often fail to engage prospective users, generate commercial interest, or meet longterm objectives, due to mismatched expectations, failures in communication, and lack of understanding of design
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Keywords : WellBeing Theory, Game Design, InterProfessional Collaboration, Psycholog
This article questions the place of games in language teaching and more specifically examines how the transition between the use of traditional games in the classroom and their adaptation to digital media has been carried out. Are these games the same or have they changed ? Has the digital switchover preserved the entertaining aspects of these games or have these aspects changed in order to accommodate more serious content ? We will thus examine the potential added value of digital ver
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Keywords : learning games, language learning, tasks, action-based learning, playful attitude