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Rich Paul Cooper; Jonan Phillip Donaldson; Mahjabin Chowdhury; Jonathan M. Mitchell – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Role Playing, Science Fiction
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Kurt D. Squire – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
At Play in the Cosmos is a game for University-level Astronomy courses. Designed as a collaboration between the Games + Learning + Society Center, an academic center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Norton & Company, Cosmos is intended to support a "game-first" model of curriculum in which students play the game before…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Game Based Learning, Learning Activities, Design
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Pi-Sui Hsu; Reva Freedman; Darin Brockmann; Zachary Hueneke; Dean LaBarbera; Ben Kluga; Rui Zhang; Ian Sullivan; Margot Van Dyke – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2022
The objective of this project was to address design gaps in previous programs that address scientific argumentation in middle schools. We adopted gamification mechanics (e.g., stimulus and response and progression) to design a computer-assisted program to better support students' development of scientific argumentation. In this paper, we describe…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Middle School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Science Education
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John Stewart; Kathleen Sheppard – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
To combat high dropout rates and low motivation for online courses, we gamified a history of science course. To do so, we used an online educational program called 3DGameLab to convert what had been a well-liked face-to-face lecture and discussion course to an online format, for the purposes of long-distance teaching and learning. Within…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Curriculum Development, Science History, Online Courses
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Zhang Huiyu; Linda Fang – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Biostatistics is a second-year subject taken by Biomedical Engineering Diploma students in Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. Gamification elements, referenced from the popular "Pokémon GO," were infused into a suite of activities. The purpose was to engage and sustain the interest of students while facilitating the successful execution of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Craig D. Howard; John W. Baaki – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
This article presents two similar design cases and a discussion of how like values resulted in dissimilar design moves. Both cases were gamified learning activities for graduate students in instructional design. Both interventions employed rapid prototyping and were delivered synchronously in an at-a-distance setting. This article compares the two…
Descriptors: Design, Instructional Design, Learning Activities, Graduate Students
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Susan L. Stansberry; Scott M. Haselwood – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2017
This design case includes the challenges, considerations, and decisions associated with the design, development, and delivery of a master's level educational technology course on teaching and learning with games and simulations. A master's level course, Digital Games and Simulations in the Classroom, faced redesign in order to add a gamification…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Simulation, Curriculum Development
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Donna Rennar-Potacco; Anymir Orellana; Rita Ramirez-Levine – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This design case describes design decisions and their impacts during three redesigns of an educational game called the "Rocks and Minerals Challenge." This game was developed as a laboratory supplement for the rocks and minerals component of a university-based geology course. The game has evolved through three distinct design phases:…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Geology, College Science
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Rebekah Radtke; Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez; Margaret Mohr-Schroeder – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
University students, faculty, and staff from science, engineering, education, entrepreneurship, and design (SEE(E)D) backgrounds developed a video game to leverage outreach efforts promoting sustainability, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ((S)STEM) to underserved students. This was accomplished by transforming a board…
Descriptors: Video Games, Energy Education, STEM Education, Outreach Programs
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Nathan Prestopnik – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
This paper reports a design case for a story-driven language learning game called "Arena." "Arena" was developed in the design science tradition, where purpose-built artifacts are used as a springboard for scientific inquiry. As such, "Arena" is a vehicle for designers and researchers to study the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Play
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Sandra K. Law; Michele Jacobsen – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2015
This design case describes the work involved in developing a digital game-based learning environment, work that was part of a PhD research project. The designer was involved in all aspects of the project: conducting research into content that was included in the game, exploring the gaming platform (Second Life), adapting scientific literature for…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Climate, Change, Curriculum Development