Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system

Ian Dunwell; Panagiotis Petridis; Sylvester Arnab; Aristidis Protopsaltis; Maurice Hendrix; Sara de Freitas

doi:10.1109/INCoS.2011.58

Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system

Ian Dunwell, Panagiotis Petridis, Sylvester Arnab, Aristidis Protopsaltis, Maurice Hendrix, Sara de Freitas

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Abstract

Serious games have recognized potential as a means to tackle many challenges in education, ranging from stimulating increased learner motivation, to transferring challenging concepts in a novel and engaging form. They are commonly shown to work most effectively in blended approaches to learning, whereby the game plays a core role in a wider pedagogic approach, often based around an experiential or exploratory model. In this paper, we explore how the integration of a serious game, and more generally gaming paradigms, can be extended to a learning content management system (LCMS) to support a blended and holistic approach to their use in education. Through a case study within the EU-Funded Adaptive Learning via Intuitive/Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional Systems (ALICE) project, we demonstrate a technical integration of a gaming engine with a proprietary LCMS, and discuss the broader pedagogic benefits of such an approach. In particular, we note how this method can support an 'intuitive guided' or scaffolded approach to learning, where the learner is given the potential to explore a non-linear learning environment, whilst scaffolding and blending provides the guidance towards ensuring targeted learning objectives are met.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on
Editors	F. Xhafa, L. Barolli, M. Köppen
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	830 - 835
ISBN (Print)	9781457719080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INCoS.2011.58
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Keywords

blended learning
game-based learning
learning content management systems
pedagogy
serious games
technology enhanced learning

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Dunwell, I., Petridis, P., Arnab, S., Protopsaltis, A., Hendrix, M., & de Freitas, S. (2011). Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system. In F. Xhafa, L. Barolli, & M. Köppen (Eds.), Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on (pp. 830 - 835). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/INCoS.2011.58

Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system. / Dunwell, Ian; Petridis, Panagiotis; Arnab, Sylvester et al.
Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on. ed. / F. Xhafa; L. Barolli; M. Köppen. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, 2011. p. 830 - 835.

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Dunwell, I, Petridis, P, Arnab, S, Protopsaltis, A, Hendrix, M & de Freitas, S 2011, Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system. in F Xhafa, L Barolli & M Köppen (eds), Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 830 - 835. https://doi.org/10.1109/INCoS.2011.58

Dunwell I, Petridis P, Arnab S, Protopsaltis A, Hendrix M, de Freitas S. Blended game-based learning environments: extending a serious game into a learning content management system. In Xhafa F, Barolli L, Köppen M, editors, Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE. 2011. p. 830 - 835 doi: 10.1109/INCoS.2011.58

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