GBLGame Based Learning

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Gaming LearningGBL

Gamification

SeriousGames

Digital Game Based Learning Edutainment

Game Based Learning Gamification Learning Games

Serious Games

Related Terms

• GBL – game play with learning outcomes• Gamification – applying game elements in

non-game context• Serious game – games designed for serious

purpose• Edutainment – Education + entertainment

DGBLExamples

Entertaining GamesLearning Games

Harry Potter Game

• Play the game at home• Select one character• Write essay

Gazzilionaire

Gazzilionaire

• www.lavamind.com/gaz.html• Game goal: fly in space, trade, make gazillion

kubars, win the game• Business education goals: buy low, sell high,

earn profit• http://youtu.be/X7HEUE8qt9A

Gazzilionaire

JA Titan

JA Titan

• newtitan.ja.org• Business education goals (supported by Titan):– Demand and supply and market balance– Productivity– Marketing– Research and development– Budgeting

• http://youtu.be/iKg-9Qb8N1k

Time Mesh History Game

www.timemesh.eu

Game for teaching history of Europe

Goals of the History Curriculum

• Rise the interest• Understand main terminology of history• Acquire chronological framework• Know the map• Understand the connections between present and past• See the connections between different historical events• Understand that one event can be interpreted differently• Develop skills needed for justifying personal opinion• Put learners in the position of people lived in the past

Important Processes that Shaped Europe During Last 600 Years

• Reformation• French revolution• Industrial revolution• The born of nation based countries• Maritime History and Colonial countries• I World war• II World war• Cold war• European Union• Collapse of the Soviet Union

Time Mesh - Industrial Revolution – Scene 2

Goal of the Time Mesh Game

• The present time in the game is different from the reality e.g. kids are not in schools but working

• Some important events have not taking place• Player has to go back in time and fix the history– to influence important historical actors– to ensure that historical events will take place

• At the same time they learn important issues from that period

• http://youtu.be/1iBETuFUKIU

Eco House

Energy saving simulatorhttp://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/Energy saving simulatorhttp://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/

Eco House

Busy Workers

http://vahur.net/busyworkers/game.html

CIA World Factbook

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.alexneil.worldquiz

Color Space

www.tlu.ee/~priitpu/colorspace/ColorSpaceFinalWEB.html

More Examples

Can you recommend a game for learning?

More Examples• siLang language learning game - www.si-lang.net• 2048 calculus game - gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048• Traveler IQ Challenge geographical game

- www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq • Geoguesser geographical game – geoguessr.com• Light Boot logics game - lightbot.com/hocflash.html • Climate Challenge business simulator -

www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge

• EnvKids - http://ohmpro.org/envkids/pilots/Energy_demonstrator.html

GBL + R&D ?

How to integrate game based learning with research and design?

DLG + R&D

• Research based game design – research projects (e.g. participatory design)

• Asking students to design serious games (project based learning + action research)

• Creating serious games as data collection instruments (e.g. Fold.it)

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Links Books and Courses

seriousgames.net

GBL Literature

Digital Learning Games

www.facebook.com/digitallearninggames

Design of Serious Games

• Tallinn Summer School• One week course• 10-14 July 2017• In English• To teachers, designers, developers, writers, artists, …• summerschool.tlu.ee