Abstract
Despite the continuous and abundant growth of the game market the uptake of games in education has been hampered by the general impression that games require complex technologies and that games are difficult to organise and to embed in education curriculums. This paper explores to what extent a simple serious game scenario that can be easily adopted and adapted by individual teachers and that only uses a common, relatively simple technology can leverage the adoption of serious games. It discusses the design of such a game, Argument, based on a Wiki and its use in a 6 weeks trial by students of a Master of Learning Sciences Programme. The results indicate that, even though a Wiki has clear limitations, it is a useful instrument to build game alike educational activities, to gain experience with and as a first step to use (more) complex serious games.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 564-577 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Interactive LearnIng Environments |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 2 Aug 2012 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Sep 2014 |
Keywords
- Wiki-games
- Serious games
- teacher training
- gamification
- Wiki