1. TEAM MEMBERS
FRCC Westminster Campus: Jessica Mahoney , Laura Sherrick, Laurie
Miller, Kristin Cowin, Heather Smith and Tanya Lee
FRCC Boulder County Campus: Spencer Morrison
FRCC Larimer Campus: John Mandley
PCC: Donna Fitzsimmons
Instructional Designers: Kae Novak, Max Kaplan, Paul Sadler and
Nathan Gopen
Assessment Guru: Monica Geist
Student evaluators : Katie Svoboda, Robin O'Connell, Deborah Johnson
2.
Rationale:
The underlying idea of educational gaming is that learners must be
actively engaged with the material to learn it. We hope to boost
interest, excitement and engagement by imbedding the psychology
101 course content within a football game theme.
We attempted to build engagement not only with the material but
also with your team members (classmates) and coach (instructor).
We hope to find a greater sense of community and belonging for
online students!
We selected 11 of the most difficult topics to cover in the labs.
They are designed to supplement learning materials for these
concepts not replace the current course content.
3.
Collaboration
We have members who represent several different
campuses and colleges. We have also included faculty,
instructors and students in the process.
This game will be made available on creative commons for
anyone who is interested in adopting it for an online or ground class.
4.
Level of student engagement and persistence will be
measured with student surveys.
Content knowledge will be measured with pre and post-test
comparisons within game sections and between gaming and
traditional online sections.
Student success will be assessed. We have operationally
defined success as students getting a C or above. We can
compare within the game classes based on number of labs
completed and well as between game and traditional classes.
Attrition will be measured by comparing the drop rates.
Student perceptions will be measured by asking qualitative
questions (e.g., challenging, applicable, helpful on the exam
etc.)
5.
All labs are ADA compliant for deaf students and those
with some visual impairments.
To access the game students simply download the link
onto their computers or a thumb-drive and they are
ready to play. Instructors can access their lab scores
through D2L.
7.
Data Collection and analysis.
Make available to all online classes at FRCC.
Make available to ground classes at FRCC
Work with other Community Colleges and their IT
departments to try and make available across the
system!
