Slide deck from ECGBL 2017, Graz

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Taxonomy of a gamified lesson path
for STEM education: The Beaconing
approach
Aikaterini Bourazeri, Sylvester Arnab,
Olivier Heidmann, Antonio Coelho & Luca
Morini
@sarnab75 @BeaconingEU #Gamification

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The project aims to support “anytime anywhere” learning
INTRODUCTION
BEACONING stands for “Breaking Educational Barriers
with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning”
The project seeks to pilot such an innovation in real
operational environments.
by exploiting pervasive,
context-aware and gamified
techniques and technologies
framed under the Problem -
Based Learning approach

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Keywords
Learning
(STEM)
Engagement
Community
End User
Authoring
Extensibility
and
interoperability
Accessibility
Playful and
pervasive
Resources

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Anytime Anywhere

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http://chronicle.com/article/The-Looming-Gamification-of/233992
Design Experience inspired by PLAY and GAMES
(Amy Jo Kim, MFW15)

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Learning “spaces”: Merging Physical and Digital?

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Lesson path (http://Beaconing.eu )
Mission A Mission B Mission C
Quest
B1
Quest
B2
Lesson path
Quest
A1
Quest
C1
Quest
C2

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Play-lesson path taxonomy: tool for designing learning scenarios

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Gameplot and narratives: mapped against lesson path

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Learning in smaller chunks: Quests linking to mini challenges,
e.g. authorable minigames

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Pervasiveness: Quests linking to location-based,
context-aware challenges, use of beacons (authorable)

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Authoring Pipeline

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Gameplot Editor: Interactive narrative

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Authoring tools: Empowering teachers to create
Ability to reuse, modify and author lesson paths, mini games, location-based activities

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Tracking activities: towards Analytics and Actionable
feedback
Lesson path
Work has focused on backend so far and integration with other components

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Pilot community so far
Reached out to over 1000 stakeholders in requirements and needs specification
Stakeholder engagement across 8 pilot sites with over 100 teachers and students engaged so
far

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Feedback so far
General reaction - very positive, teachers willing to further participate
Main points:
Teachers (it is key to onboard the teachers…)
 Spacialisation - Geolocation/Beacons provide new possibilities of improving the existing courses
and extend the control of the teachers on the flow of the courses
 Customisation of all the elements of Beaconing from the lesson paths
 Gamified approach will ensure a higher involvement of the students in the knowledge acquisition
 It involves a greater number of stimuli, it sparks curiosity
Students
 Integrating theory with games makes learning easier
 Games help them develop ability to retain more information

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Ongoing work…
Several GLPs are being designed by teachers to be used in their own course
Oct : GLPs Implementation using the authoring tools (Beta Version)
Dec: Feedback loop with teachers to adjust/enrich the GLPs
Jan- Feb 18: Deployment in classrooms (for Large scale implementation
across the schools in the EU, >5000 students)

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Thank You!
@sarnab75 #gamification @beaconingEU
Sylvester Arnab
Prof. in Game Science
s.arnab@coventry.ac.uk
Blog: https://sylvesterarnab.com/