Collaborative Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Jessica Reuter ◽  
Marta Ferreira Dias ◽  
Maria José Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
And Diffusion

Organisations always seek to maximize the effectiveness of their internal systems. Gamification is a growing trend in work contexts, with employers realizing that many of the elements associated with it can be transferred to a business environment. Understanding the main concepts that make games appealing to society allows us to understand how they can be adapted and used in the professional environment, as well as in organizations. Therefore, besides gamification, game-based learning and serious games can be used in organizations for training and skills development. Understanding how gamification activities affect both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation is critical to understanding how they affect workers and how they can be used to their full potential. This study provides a critical analysis of the use of these tools to increase the motivation and collaboration of individuals in organizations. Playing in groups to learn is a practice that still needs more incentives and diffusion to be widely used in the company context.

scholarly journals The Impact of Game-Based, Modeling, and Collaborative Learning Methods on the Achievements, Motivations, and Visual Mathematical Literacy Perceptions

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110035
Author(s):  
Aziz İlhan
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Conventional Instruction ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Mathematical Literacy ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Learning Groups ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of geometry instruction activities conducted in nature based on modeling, game-based, and cooperative learning methods on achievement, mathematical motivation, and visual mathematical literacy perceptions of third-grade elementary school students. The present study is a quantitative study conducted with a pre-test/post-test experimental design with a control group. The study was conducted with 61 students (35 students in the experimental group and 26 students in the control group). Modeling-, game-, and collaborative learning-based activities were conducted with the students in the experimental group. It was determined that the achievements of students who were instructed with modeling-based activities in geometry were high when compared to that of the students instructed with collaborative learning- and game-based methods, and those in the control group where no intervention was applied. This group was followed by the game-based and collaborative learning groups. Based on the variable of motivation, the mean motivation of the students in the modeling group was higher when compared to that of the students in the collaborative learning, game-based, and conventional instruction groups. This group was followed by the collaborative and game-based learning groups. Also, based on the visual mathematical literacy perception variable, the mean visual mathematics literacy perception of the students in the collaborative learning group was higher when compared to that of the students in the groups where the modeling, game-based, and conventional instruction methods were used. This group was followed by the modeling and game-based learning groups.

scholarly journals Towards a Development Approach to Serious Games

2009 ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara de Freitas ◽  
Steve Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Future Work

This chapter reviews some of the key research supporting the use of serious games for training in work contexts. The review indicates why serious games should be used to support training requirements, and in particular identifies “attitudinal change” in training as a key objective for deployment of serious games demonstrators. The chapter outlines a development approach for serious games and how it is being evaluated. Demonstrating this, the chapter proposes a game-based learning approach that integrates the use of a “four-dimensional framework”, outlines some key games principles, presents tools and techniques for supporting data collection and analysis, and considers a six-stage development process. The approach is then outlined in relation to a serious game for clinical staff concerned with infection control in hospitals and ambulances, which is being developed in a current research and development project. Survey findings from the target user group are presented and the use of tools and techniques explained in the context of the development process. The chapter proposes areas for future work and concludes that it is essential to use a specific development approach for supporting consistent game design, evaluation and efficacy for particular user groups.

scholarly journals Serious Games in Higher Distance Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Celestini
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Serious Gaming ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Instructional Capacity

Games have been socially entrenched throughout history as a form of entertainment. Current rapidly changing technological advances have permitted an increasingly prominent means of utilizing these sources of entertainment in an instructional capacity for educational purposes. Serious gaming as a result, focuses on engaging learners in activities which are not solely developed for enjoyment purposes. Goal oriented pursuits based in either an authentic or fictitious scenario can be designed to improve a learner or players motor and cognitive abilities or knowledge (de Freitas & Jarvis, 2006; Lamb et al., 2018; Protopsaltis et al., 2011). Serious gaming promotes intentional, active, and mobile learning that can be successfully used as a supplemental educational tool to facilitate a situated understanding of specific content (Admiral et al., 2011; Gee, 2005). This paper is a brief overview of game-based learning, or serious games, as an innovative instructional strategy in higher distance education.

GAME-BASED LEARNING IN INTEGRATED DOMAINS WITH AN APPLICATION FOR STEAM CENTERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Stefani Paunova ◽  
◽  
Vilyana Doychevska ◽  
Valentin Yordanov ◽  
Stanimir Stoyanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Logic Programming ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Modeling Systems ◽  
National Research Program ◽  
Integrated Domains ◽  
The University

The article presents a game-based learning environment that is being deeloped as a component of the ATOS platform (the platform is an article described for the same conference). The proposed environment is an adaptation of a component for serious games, developed within two projects – the National Research Program „Intelligent Agriculture (2021-2024)“ and the university project „ViSCoD – environment for modeling systems for intelligent agriculture“. The opportunities for game-based learning in integrated domains (in this case intelligent agriculture – STEAM center) are demonstrated with a version of the well-known game „Twenty question game“, adapted for the Bulgarian flora. The system is fully implemented in the logic programming language Prolog and thus can also be used to teach students in the discipline „Artificial Intelligence“.

A Brief Methodology for Researching and Evaluating Serious Games and Game-Based Learning

2013 ◽  
pp. 357-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Mayer ◽  
Geertje Bekebrede ◽  
Harald Warmelink ◽  
Qiqi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Comparative Theory ◽  
Conceptual Research ◽  
Digital Or

In this chapter, the authors present a methodology for researching and evaluating Serious Games (SG) and digital (or other forms of) Game-Based Learning (GBL). The methodology consists of the following elements: 1) frame-reflective analysis; 2) a methodology explicating the rationale behind a conceptual-research model; 3) research designs and data-gathering procedures; 4) validated research instruments and tools; 5) a body of knowledge that provides operationalised models and hypotheses; and 6) professional ethics. The methodology is intended to resolve the dilemma between the “generality” and “standardisation” required for comparative, theory-based research and the “specificity” and “flexibility” needed for evaluating specific cases.

Digital Games

2013 ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Pivec ◽  
Maja Pivec
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Effective Learning Environments ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Collaborative Platform

Digital Games are becoming a new form of interactive content and game playing provides an interactive and collaborative platform for learning purposes. Collaborative learning allows participants to produce new ideas as well as to exchange information, simplify problems, and resolve the tasks. Context based collaborative learning method is based on constructivist learning theory and guides the design of the effective learning environments. The constructivist design required for successful Game-Based Learning is discussed in this chapter and the model of recursive learning is discussed suggesting how Game-Based Learning (GBL) and how to maximize its affect. This chapter defines “Gameplay” and tables the perceptions of both players and teachers in the area of abilities learnt from playing digital games. Resources for implementing GBL are highlighted and the need for these is discussed. We conclude this chapter with design guidelines that will ensure effective learning outcomes are attained and suggest why these steps are necessary.

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