The document discusses game-based learning (GBL), emphasizing various educational games and their objectives in diverse subjects like business and history. It highlights specific games such as 'Gazzilionaire' for business education and 'Time Mesh' for teaching history, detailing their goals and outcomes. Additionally, it encourages exploring more educational games and integrating GBL with research and design.

1. GBLGame Based Learning
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2. Gaming Learning
GBL
Gamification
Serious
Games

3. Digital Game Based Learning Edutainment
Game Based Learning
Gamification Learning Games
Serious Games

4. Related Terms
• GBL – game play with learning outcomes
• Gamification – applying game elements in
non-game context
• Serious game – games designed for serious
purpose
• Edutainment – Education + entertainment

5. DGBL
Examples
Entertaining Games
Learning Games

6. Harry Potter Game
• Play the game at home
• Select one character
• Write essay

7. Gazzilionaire

8. Gazzilionaire
• www.lavamind.com/gaz.html
• Game goal: fly in space, trade, make gazillion
kubars, win the game
• Business education goals: buy low, sell high,
earn profit
• http://youtu.be/X7HEUE8qt9A

9. Gazzilionaire

10. JA Titan

11. JA Titan
• newtitan.ja.org
• Business education goals (supported by Titan):
– Demand and supply and market balance
– Productivity
– Marketing
– Research and development
– Budgeting
• http://youtu.be/iKg-9Qb8N1k

12. Time Mesh History Game
www.timemesh.eu
Game for teaching history of Europe

13. Goals of the History Curriculum
• Rise the interest
• Understand main terminology of history
• Acquire chronological framework
• Know the map
• Understand the connections between present and past
• See the connections between different historical events
• Understand that one event can be interpreted differently
• Develop skills needed for justifying personal opinion
• Put learners in the position of people lived in the past

14. Important Processes that Shaped
Europe During Last 600 Years
• Reformation
• French revolution
• Industrial revolution
• The born of nation based countries
• Maritime History and Colonial countries
• I World war
• II World war
• Cold war
• European Union
• Collapse of the Soviet Union

15. Time Mesh - Industrial Revolution – Scene 2

16. Goal of the Time Mesh Game
• The present time in the game is different from
the reality e.g. kids are not in schools but working
• Some important events have not taking place
• Player has to go back in time and fix the history
– to influence important historical actors
– to ensure that historical events will take place
• At the same time they learn important issues
from that period
• http://youtu.be/1iBETuFUKIU

17. Eco House
Energy saving simulator
http://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/
Energy saving simulator
http://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse/
Eco House

18. Busy Workers
http://vahur.net/busyworkers/game.html

19. CIA World Factbook
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.alexneil.worldquiz

20. Color Space
www.tlu.ee/~priitpu/colorspace/ColorSpaceFinalWEB.html

21. More Examples
Can you recommend a game for
learning?

22. More Examples
• siLang language learning game - www.si-lang.net
• 2048 calculus game - gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048
• Traveler IQ Challenge geographical game -
www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
• Geoguesser geographical game – geoguessr.com
• Light Boot logics game - lightbot.com/hocflash.html
• Climate Challenge business simulator -
www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climat
e_challenge
• EnvKids -
http://ohmpro.org/envkids/pilots/Energy_demonstr

23. GBL + R&D ?
How to integrate game based
learning with research and design?

24. DLG + R&D
• Research based game design – research
projects (e.g. participatory design)
• Asking students to design serious games
(project based learning + action research)
• Creating serious games as data collection
instruments (e.g. Fold.it)
• …

25. Fold It

26. Interested in More
Links Books and Courses

27. seriousgames.net

28. GBL Literature

29. Digital Learning Games
www.facebook.com/digitallearninggames

30. Design of Serious Games
• Tallinn Summer School
• One week course
• 10-14 July 2017
• In English
• To teachers, designers, developers, writers, artists, …
• summerschool.tlu.ee