Embedding Education Within Games

OverviewMain TopicsDevelopment

Future Work to be conductedConclusion

Context

• Games stereotypically seen as for trivial fun only

• Parents see it as getting in the way of education

• But can games provide education? Both curriculum based, such as Maths, and social learning, such as teamwork skills?

Overview

• Aims to provide findings on how gaming can prove educational

• Whether games can provide social learning skills

• Whether this can be beneficial

• Whether production of a mod would help these findings

Research Approach

• Look at others research – i.e. James Paul Gee with his learning principles.

• Also research around behavioural learning theory and cognitive learning theory.

• Look at different learning pedagogies – Heeter and Winn.

Practical Research

• Production of a testing scheme for evaluating what children learn from games.

• Results from the testing scheme.

• Possibility for extending work by development of a mod.

Evaluation of Methods

• Needs extensive research conducted on an appropriate age group.

• Needs a valid and strong testing scheme to be devised.

• Possible reliance on this form of qualitative research.

• Secondary research can help validate primary research.

Potential Future Work

• Possible mod made for the Unreal Engine.

• Mod would encompass the results of the research.

• Provide educational elements to the game.

Conclusion

• Research will provide information on:– The affects of gaming on children.– The learning benefits possible from these

games.– How it can be harnessed and used in other

games.– Future work: I.e. Mod.

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