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- 1. The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game 24th Annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning Jacksonville, Florida 10 April 2013 Lee Sheldon Associate Professor Co-Director Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 5. TRADITION
- 7. How can we get them to focus like that in class???
- 8. Maybe with video games? Duh.
- 9. BUT WE’VE HAD VIDEO GAMES IN THE CLASSROOM FOR DECADES Be careful with that research: Even bad games can get good results in classrooms.
- 10. BECAUSE EVEN BAD GAMES ARE BETTER THAN THIS
- 11. GAMES ARE NOT SIMULATIONS, THEY REQUIRE ABSTRACTION Too literal? Why make a game at all?
- 13. ONE IDEA • Video Games – Solo – Immersion – Engagement – Experience points – Leveling – Learning by Failure – Phat lOOt
- 14. • Multiplayer games & virtual worlds – Competition – Collaboration – Boss raids – Zones – Pick-up groups – Guilds – Community A SECOND IDEA
- 16. A THIRD IDEA • Alternate Reality Games – Real-time – Real world
- 17. The Skeleton Chase 2: The Psychic
- 19. “Good morning, you all have an F.”
- 21. “However you can all level up.”
- 29. “Ah! We have a question from a member of the audience!”
- 30. “I can see that it might work in video game classes, but it would never work in others.”
- 31. • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Indiana University • Wake Forest University • Jesuit High School • Marked Tree High School • University of Arizona • Louisiana State University • Valencia Community College • Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School • Texas Tech University • Ohio Valley College of Technology • Waunakee Community High School GAME BOARDS
- 35. FINAL MANDARIN EXAM: A POLICE INTERROGATION
- 36. “But how do students who have experienced multiplayer classrooms do when they move on to more traditional teaching methods in later classes?”
- 37. • Students learn the same material with more retention than in non-multiplayer classrooms • Class performance is ultimately measured in the same way as non-multiplayer classes • Benefits of the multiplayer classroom are carried over to traditional classes. ONGOING BENEFITS In the Multiplayer Classroom: “Good morning, you all have an F.”
- 38. • Actively engaged classes (even students who were not gamers) • Average grade on last midterm: A (up from C) • Higher average grade overall: B (up from C) • Almost perfect attendance • Students come early to class • Positive results from middle school to university level • Positive results from poverty-level students, special education students and English learners • Positive results continue after leaving a multiplayer classroom, even if education continues using traditional methods OBSERVATIONS
- 40. LEARNING BY FAILING GRADING BY ATTRITION INTRINSIC REWARDS GAMEPLAY SUSTAINED NARRATIVE
- 49. THESE FAR HILLS
- 50. 1852 an Gorta Mor (The Great Famine)
- 53. A New Land
- 54. Well you can bet tonight it's raining in Dublin In the morning or the evening about the same And a thousand miles away I miss you more and more each day But the strangest thing is how I miss the rain... -Kevin McKrell
- 56. Dublin Climate Change in Ireland
- 62. Michael Donovan Donal KateMatthew Beth Kevin Michael Raven The Family Donovan
- 63. A New Land
- 64. The Green Hills of Ireland
- 65. The Red Hills of Mars
- 67. Well you can bet tonight it's raining in Dublin In the morning or the evening about the same And a thousand miles away I miss you more and more each day But the strangest thing is how I miss the rain... -Kevin McKrell
- 68. From the Outside Looking In
- 69. THESE FAR HILLS The Story of a Family Building a New Life in a New Land
- 70. Teaching Engineering to a New Generation THESE FAR HILLS
- 73. September 2012
- 74. EMERGENT REALITY LAB The Lost Manuscript 2: The Summer Palace Cipher MARCH 2013
- 78. LEARNING BY FAILING GRADING BY ATTRITION INTRINSIC REWARDS GAMEPLAY SUSTAINED NARRATIVE There is no shame in starting small. We all did.
- 80. Thank you! Available Everywhere from Cengage Learning sheldc2@rpi.edu Join teachers, students and parents from over 40 countries on the Multiplayer Classroom Facebook Page