Measuring Impact - An Engage Workshop on Monitoring & Evaluation
Engage Workshop Berlin09 Part1
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Transcript of Engage Workshop Berlin09 Part1
Engage in Game-Based Learning
www.engagelearning.eu
Workshop - Online Educa, Berlin 2009
Agenda• 9:00 – 10:45
• Introductions• Moderators & Attendees
• Engage Learning Project• Overview of Project • Walk through of web portal• Overview of Project Tools
• Overview of Workshop CD contents
• Single Player Scenarios• Group work creating scenarios• Presentation of ideas
Agenda• 11:15 – 13:00
• Game Based Learning or Game Based Teaching• Overview of Meta Games• A discussion on the use of Meta Games• The Taxonomy of Game Based Learning
• Role Playing the Industry• Examples of using RolePlay at University• Group work creating Roleplays• Presentation of ideas
• Conclusion• Summary, Feedback, Thank you, and Farewell
•Introductions
• Who you are?
• Where you are from?
• Why you are here?
• If you could be a videogame character, who
would you be and why?
•Project Overview
ENGAGE
European Network for Growing Activity
in Game-based learning in Education
LLP KA4 2008 - 3607Duration - 24 months
Stakeholders
• Practitioners/teachers/tutors/trainers.• Parents and learners in all sectors. • Researchers and students.• National and regional policy makers and
policy advisors.• European policy makers and policy
advisors.• Game developers, game producers and
learning content providers.
Objectives
• The creation of a European GBL Portal
• Main dissemination tool
• Documented methodologies
• Europe wide dialogue
• Targeted workshops
• Supporting the practitioners
• Guidelines for Practitioners
Valorisation
• Valorisation Workshops in 12 EC countries
• Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium(1st Round – 6 countries)
• E.g. Portugal, Greece, France, Slovenia, UK, Finland(2nd Round – 6 countries)
• Inviting selected promoters from other countries• to cover at least 24 countries
Mainstreaming
• Increasing the monitoring capacity and promotion of quality approaches
•Portal Walkthrough
Resources
• “Decision Making” - IFo support for teachers for broad questions re games, the game
industry, gaming culture, game technology, games for learning, criteria for games for learning. games and educational multimedia etc
• “Reduction of the Learning Curve” - HOWo information for teachers with respect to how to start, play and
interact with various types of games + how to implement these games and game-based tools in classroom/formal education situations
• “Online Catalogue of Games for Learning” - WHATo A catalogue of serious games and other games for learning
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…• A wiki? a wizard? an FAQ type tool? software
help type tool?• All of the above perhaps…
• A wiki: wiki as working method, wiki structure, wiki insofar as other users outside the partner group would be able to edit and add new articles
• A wizard: potentially leads users through from a general interest in using games for learning through specific advice on what games to consider and how to implement in an educational context
• FAQ: providing answers or paths from real/realistic questions
• A software help tool: providing standard software search/browsing options, contents, index, search
Working with Wikis
A catalogue of games
• Creation of a catalogue of serious and entertainment game titles• each partner to review 1 serious
game and 3 “entertainment” titles
• Highly templated
Work to date
Various topics
Game Reviews
Work to date
Various topics
Game Reviews
What are the ..?
I’ve heard….?
Game Reviews
Various topics
FAQ-style questions
What are the ..?
I’ve heard….?
Various topics
Game Reviews
FAQ-style questions
Further questions & texts
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An offline version?
• To include:• Decision Making Topics• Reduction of the Learning Curve
Topics• FAQs
• But “interactive”?
An offline version?
• To include:• Decision Making Topics• Reduction of the Learning
CurveTopics
• FAQs
• But “interactive”?
~ The Cave of Time, Edward Packard
The Print ToolWhat are the ..?
I’ve heard….?
Various topics
FAQ-style questions
Level 1:Categories
Level 2:FAQ-styleQuestions
Level 3:InformationTopics
Engage Workshop CD
• Games• Spsgame• Science & Technology game
• Publications• Handbooks and Reports
• Videos• Gender in Game design• DDR Expert Players• sps authoring tool overview
Single Player Scenario
In Groups….
• Play spsgame on CD• Choose one level only
• Brainstorm alternate scenario• Overview, levels, questions, outcomes
• Present ideas to class
Example 1: Conference Chaos
Example 2: Project Pandemonium
•Presentation of Ideas
COFFEE BREAK
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10:45 - 11:15