DGBL Examples martin.sillaots@tlu.ee 28.09.2016 Business Simulators: Gazzilionaire - http://www.lavamind.com/games/gazillionaire (video https://youtu.be/X7HEUE8qt9A) JA Titan - http://titanpublic.ja.org (video https://youtu.be/iKg-9Qb8N1k) Rahamaa family budgeting simulator - http://www.rahamaa.ee (video https://youtu.be/gMtF-XmEA2o) Job interview games: SiLang language adventure game http://www.si-lang.net (video: https://youtu.be/9uObyJi8wsk) Tööleidja job interview game http://www.ti.ee/fileadmin/mangud/tooleidja Geographical games: Geoguesser gamified Google Maps - https://geoguessr.com World Facts Quiz Android app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.alexneil.worldquiz Traveller IQ Challenge quiz - http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq Environmental games (business simulators): EcoHouse house renovation simulation http://www.tlu.ee/~raxsade/ecohouse Climate Challenge http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge EnvKids http://ohmpro.org/envkids/pilots/Energy_demonstrator.html Math games: 2048 calculus puzzle - http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ DragonBox algebra puzzle - http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uua7Xx5iCWw) Programming games: Light boot logics puzzle - http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html Bit by Bit - http://rikaigames.com/bitbybit/ Art games: Color Space RGB colorspace flight simulator - http://www.tlu.ee/~priitpu/colorspace/ColorSpaceFinalWEB.html History Games: Time Mesh adventure game about European history - http://www.timemesh.eu (video: https://youtu.be/1iBETuFUKIU) Science: Fold It puzzle for collecting information how the proteins folds – http://fold.it (video: https://youtu.be/bo99JjnfdA8) More: Segan - http://seriousgamesnet.eu

1. GBLGame Based Learning
Mängupõhine õpe
martinsillaots@gmail.com

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