Date post: | 17-Aug-2015 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
•Who the heck are we?
•Why should you do research on your game?
•How do you get started?
•How do you get published?
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AVERY RUEB
•Dartmouth, Middlebury, McGill• 15 years experience in the classroom, 5 countries•McGill X-1 Accelerator• Research fields
–Reading comprehension–Serious games for
pronunciation and vocabulary–Serious games for motivation
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PASCAL NATAF
• Professor of Game Design, Université de Montréal
•Montréal Inc., Hyperliens, Concours Alpha, Futurpreneur,
• Regroupement des producteurs multimédia, la Guilde
• Research: Hôpital Ste-Justine
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WHY DO RESEARCH ON YOUR GAME
• Understand your game better
• Understand learning better
• Contribute to research community
• Contribute to the serious game community
• Get credibility with educators
• Product differentiator
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HOW TO GET RESEARCHERS ON BOARD
• Why not do it yourself?
• How to make yourself attractive to researchers?
• How to work with researchers?
• Conflict of interest?
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WHAT TO MEASURE
• Can I compare learning methods?– Rosetta Stone vs. Duolingo
• Difference between an experimental and a control group
• Different variables
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WHAT TO MEASURE
• RQ #1. Does playing Ready to Negotiate (RTN) contribute to the L2 acquisition of certain aspects of French pronunciation?
• RQ #2. Does playing Ready to Negotiate contribute to the L2 acquisition of French vocabulary?
• RQ #5. What are learners’ perceptions of the use of games as a learning tool?
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HOW DO I GET PARTICIPANTS?
• School Ethics Boards
• Teachers
• Students
• Pilot Study
• Individual participants: paid or unpaid?
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HOW DO I GET FUNDING?
• Pilot Study
• Get researchers on board
• Learn to write very clearly and persuasively
• Apply to a lot of places
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COMMON MISTAKES
• Writing too big research questions
• Writing a scary student consent form
• Trying to do everything yourself
• Not treating the experimental and control groups exactly the same
• Writing imprecise feedback forms
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HOW DO I GET PUBLISHED?
• Get feedback
• Don’t worry about getting rejected
• Maximize team members’ talents
• Write a kick ass article
• Don’t submit to many journals!
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