Overview
- Connects video games and pedagogical techniques to improve student engagement and learning
- Expands upon the traditional educational game design process
- Draws upon multiple fields such as systems thinking, design theory, and assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Game-Based Learning (AGBL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. It also examines the social nature of gaming such as techniques for driver/navigator partners, small groups, and whole class structures to help make thinking visible; it expands the traditional design process teachers engage in by encouraging use of video game design techniques such as playtesting. The author emphasizes designing curricular games for problem-solving and warns against designing games that are simply “Alex Trebek (host of Jeopardy) wearing a mask”. By drawing on multiple fields such as systems thinking, design theory, assessment, and curriculum design, this book relies on theory to generate techniques for practice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Guide to Designing Curricular Games
Book Subtitle: How to "Game" the System
Authors: Janna Jackson Kellinger
Series Title: Advances in Game-Based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42393-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42392-0Published: 28 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82569-4Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42393-7Published: 19 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2567-8086
Series E-ISSN: 2567-8485
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 349
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour