Computer game based learning approach for Mandarin language

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Dwiana ◽  
Dalbir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Computer Game ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Mandarin Language

scholarly journals Affective Educational Games and the Evolving Teaching Experience

2011 ◽  
pp. 206-228
Author(s):  
Karla Muñoz ◽  
Paul Mc Kevitt ◽  
Tom Lunney ◽  
Julieta Noguez ◽  
Luis Neri
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Student Model ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Control Value

Teaching methods must adapt to learners’ expectations. Computer game-based learning environments enable learning through experimentation and are inherently motivational. However, for identifying when learners achieve learning goals and providing suitable feedback, Intelligent Tutoring Systems must be used. Recognizing the learner’s affective state enables educational games to improve the learner’s experience or to distinguish relevant emotions. This chapter discusses the creation of an affective student model that infers the learner’s emotions from cognitive and motivational variables through observable behavior. The control-value theory of ‘achievement emotions’ provides a basis for this work. A Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs) approach for affective student modeling, which is based on Dynamic Bayesian Networks, is discussed. The approach is tested through a prototyping study based on Wizard-of-Oz experiments and preliminary results are presented. The affective student model will be incorporated into PlayPhysics, an emotional game-based learning environment for teaching Physics. PRMs facilitate the design of student models with Bayesian Networks. The effectiveness of PlayPhysics will be evaluated by comparing the students’ learning gains and learning efficiencies.

Integrating Games into the Classroom

2013 ◽  
pp. 114-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Ketamo ◽  
Kristian Kiili ◽  
Sylvester Arnab ◽  
Ian Dunwell
Keyword(s):  
Computational Methods ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Teacher’S Role ◽  
Game World ◽  
Game Features ◽  
Teacher's Role

The game-based learning approach has already shown its strengths from the learners’ point of view. However, there are numerous unrevealed ways to support teachers’ work within the game-based approach. Unfortunately, games that exclude the teacher from the game-based learning process dominate the markets, which is of great concern. Thus, the aim of this chapter is to study the use of novel game features that enable teachers to participate in game-based learning events. In this chapter, the teacher’s role in the game-based learning process is considered through several different game examples that are designed to fulfill both learners’ and teachers’ needs. The examples show that there are both computational and non-computational methods that can be used to support learning and teachers’ work in the game world. Based on previous results it can be argued that the diffusion of game-based learning can be facilitated only if both learners’ and teachers’ needs and goals are taken into account.

Learning as Becoming

2011 ◽  
pp. 128-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yam San Chee ◽  
Swee Kin Loke ◽  
Ek Ming Tan
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Classroom Learning ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Cultural World

In this chapter, we share a model of game-based learning for use in the context of classroom learning in school. The model is based on the dialectic interaction between game play and dialogic engagement with peers and teacher on one hand and a developmental trajectory of competence-through-performance on the other. It is instantiated in the context of a learning program related to citizenship education using the computer game Space Station Leonis. We argue for the importance of values in all learning, based upon a theory of becoming citizens that is founded on process philosophy. We relate values to dispositions as articulated manifestations of values and describe how the Leonis learning program helps to achieve dispositional shifts befitting citizenship education in a globalized and multi-cultural world.

VISOLE

2010 ◽  
pp. 185-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris S.Y. Jong ◽  
Junjie Shang ◽  
Fong-Lok Lee ◽  
Jimmy H.M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Virtual Interactive

VISOLE (Virtual Interactive Student-Oriented Learning Environment) is a constructivist pedagogical approach to empower computer game-based learning. This approach encompasses the creation of a near real-life online interactive world modeled upon a set of multi-disciplinary domains, in which each student plays a role in this “virtual world” and shapes its development. All missions, tasks and problems therein are generative and open-ended with neither prescribed strategies nor solutions. With sophisticated multi-player simulation contexts and teacher facilitation (scaffolding and debriefing), VISOLE provides opportunities for students to acquire both subject-specific knowledge and problem-solving skills through their near real-life gaming experience. This chapter aims to delineate the theoretical foundation and pedagogical implementation of VISOLE. Apart from that, the authors also introduce their game-pedagogy co-design strategy adopted in developing the first VISOLE instance—FARMTASIA.

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