Ahmed Morsy, Educational Consultant | Meem Ain for Education, Saudi Arabia WORKSHOP: Improving Teaching and Learning Activities in Educational Games using Artificial Intelligence Our audience will get practical insights, tips and best practices on how to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational games to support both teaching/learning activities. Also, our audience will be able to identify the challenges that they might encounter while integrating AI into their games and get ideas on how to overcome them through interactive group activities. The audience will have the chance to play an AI game and get more insights about the role of AI in line with game mechanics and elements. In addition, they will be able to work on groups to develop ideas that employ AI as an essential component in their games. Presented by the Serious Play Conference seriousplayconf.com at Orlando, University of Central Florida, UCF, July 24-26, 2019

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Improving
Teaching/Learning in
Educational Games Using
Artificial Intelligence
Ahmed Morsy, E-learning Specialist, Meem Ain, KSA

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Agenda
• Introduction to Malee game
• Challenges
• Digital Game
• Let’s Play
• AI
• Power of Data
• Machine Learning
• Tips

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Introduction
Do you agree that:
“Teachers could be replaced by
Artificial Intelligence?”

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Introduction (Cont.)
• According to the UNESCO, we need 69 million
teachers to meet the 2030 education agenda!
• Educational systems in many countries are suffering
because most of their teachers are not qualified
enough.
• Student enrollment is increasing rapidly every year.
• Learners have been changed!
• Many tasks could be done my systems and
machines. (Accuracy, Speed and Quality)

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Introduction to
Malee
• Malee is financial literacy
game.
• The game is aiming at
developing learner’s skills,
knowledge and attitude
using an innovative
approach.

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Malee covers the following topics:
• Saving
• Difference between wants and needs
• Prioritizing the needs
• Payments, Prices, and Purchases
• Budgeting
• Managing income and expenditure
• Short/longer-term Planning
• Investment
• Sources of income
• Risk management
• Reasons for income fluctuation
• Charity and donation
• Opportunities

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Challenges

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Challenges (Cont.)
Spreading our
program in all the
districts in KSA.
To rapidly increase the
number our
beneficiaries.
To assure the quality of
our program there must
be an expert facilitator to
provide mentorship and
instant comprehensive
feedback.
To find qualified
facilitators “teaching
skills and financial
education”.

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Developing a
Digital Game
Desktop and App

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Malee “Digital Version”
Malee has been designed based on 3 integrated
principles:
• Gamification (to motivate and engage learners).
• Educational principles (to meet the intended
learning outcomes ILO’s).
• Artificial Intelligence(to manage the gamification
and pedagogical aspects).

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Let’s Play!
http://meemain.org/play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MeemEein.Maly&hl
Play Online: Windows and Mac
Mobile App: Android

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How to Play?
Click on the “?” icon to select a character and to choose a nickname

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How to Play?
Select a character and choose a nickname then press start

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How to Play?
When you all are done, click here to start

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How to Play?
Click on the “?” icon to select a character and to choose a nickname

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How to Play?
End point players starting point luck wheel

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How to Play?
This is the station where you can buy the required 10 items

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How to Play?
You can buy only one item from each category and it won’t be
available for the other players.

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How to Play?
Although all items are required but some items have special characteristics
and effect on your status when you reach to the bills station

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How to Play?

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How to Play?
If you have a car or a house you will pay for the maintenance and bills (50
points), if you don’t have them you will pay a rent (100 points).

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How to Play?
If you get “sweets” or “cell phone” before the Bills Station you will
pay a bill and for the dentist

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How to Play?
Having your own business and books gives you double the price you
paid

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How to Play?
You win if you get them before the end point not the Bills Station

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How to Play?
If you stuck you can get an advice here!

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How to Play?
Donation Station: you can donate if you want but …..

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How to Play?
If you donate you can get up to 150% back, free items or discount
during playing (Luck Station) and 200% rewards in the Bills Station
10
30
50
100

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How to Play?
Luck Stations provides cards that add or take out from your balance

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How to Play?
This card takes 30 points out for buying new clothes as you need them

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How to Play?
Sale! Get any item with 50% discount. If your donation exceeds ….

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How to Play?
If you don’t have enough points to pay for the cards you will (sell your
items “25%” or “Withdraw”. Always keep points in your account.

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How to Play?
If you don’t have enough points to pay for the cards you will (sell your
items “25%” or “Withdraw”. Always keep points in your account.

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How to Play?
Challenging Station! You can easily get money

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How to Play?
10 values will appear randomly (in 10 sec.), select the largest!

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How to Play?

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How to Play?
Move 2 steps backward or forward

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How to Play?
Click on the “?” icon to select a character and to choose a nickname

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How to Play?
When you reach the Bills Station ….

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How to Play?

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How to Play?
Business revenue - Donation rewards – Reading rewards – Bills of your phone
Rent (you don’t have house) Service (you have a car)

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How to Play?
Analytics Badges ranking winner play again

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How to Play?
Performance analysis (income-investment-donation-saving-smart
expenditure- number of items)

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How to Play?
You can show them the way you like

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Let’s Play!

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1. Onboarding
• Easy / no obstacles
• Assistance and
Guidance
• Feedback
• Few Choices
• Reduce the failure
probability
2. Scaffolding
• Skill Building: Helping
learners acquire
knowledge and skills
• From easy to hard
3. Mastery
Artificial Intelligence

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Pedagogical Principles
GamificationBusiness Model
Product Design
Game/Design Thinking
Technology

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What does Artificial
Intelligence (AI) mean?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the
simulation of human intelligence
processes by machines, especially
computer systems. These processes
include learning (the acquisition of
information and rules for using the
information), reasoning (using rules
to reach approximate or definite
conclusions) and self-correction.
https://searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com/definition/
AI-Artificial-Intelligence

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AI Roles
Classification Prediction Recommendation
Data

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Artificial Intelligence
GamificationPedagogy
Balance
Engagement
Feedback
Information
Assessment
Classification
Prediction
Intelligent Rewarding System
Motivation
Recommendations
Content
Guidance
Mentorship

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We applied AI to
Providing a
comprehensive
feedback and
assessment
Providing Content
01
- Changing
learner’s
behavior
- Providing
mentorship
02
-Controlling
the game
balance
03
-Motivation
-Engagement
04

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Power of Data
• -The number of points each player has.
• -The properties he/she owns on each step.
• -Learner’s location on the board
• -Learners attitude (ex.: risk taker)
• -Player’s choices (In details: When and for how much)
• -His priorities (Items in order)
• -The available opportunities the player gets and/or misses
• -The status of other players on every step
To employ AI into your solution, you must collect as
much data as you can, also you should focus on
creating structured DB from day one.
For example, we are collecting the following data to
provide instant feedback and mentorship:

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Teacher’s dashboard (Learning Analytics)
1. Who gets the 10 items first (faster)
2. Who owns the cheapest items
3. Who gets the most expensive items (weak planning)
4. Donations
5. Player’s investment
6. Savings for each player
7. Total income for each player
The dashboard identifies the following:
Power of Data (Cont.)

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Recency:
How recent do your players play?
Duration:
How long do the players keep playing?
Frequency:
How often do your players play?
Virality:
Do your players talk about your game?
Ratings:
Do you get good feedback from your players?
Shot-termgoals
Long-termgoals
andquests
Features
ValueAdded
UX

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Novice
Mastery
session
Sort-term goals
Recency - Duration - Frequency
Long-term goals
Goal of the game the story of your game (Not the ILOs)

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Machine Learning (Phase ll)
• In the current phase, we apply a machine learning
technique that allows our game to learn from the
players behavior and take decisions based on the
actual user performance.
• This require feeding (train) the game with big
amount of information(training phase) to help it
recognize the relations between data then it could
classify, predict and recommend in a smart way.

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Machine Learning (Phase ll) Cont.
Before
1. The Intended Learning Outcomes.
2. Learner’s ActivitiesAchievements.
3. What we see right
After
The behavior of those who successfully achieved the
ILO’s and based on the lesson learned from those
who fail to meet the ILO’s.

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Machine Learning (Phase ll) Cont.
• Decision Tree Model was the solution!
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YesNo
yesNo
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YesNo

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Tips
1. Keep the ILO’s always on focus.
2. Collecting every single action the your learner
takes.
3. AI without big data does nothing!
4. Data mining could help you get amazing
(unexpected) insights about your learners
characteristics and behavior (ex.: finds relations
between actions).
5. AI will help you understand how your students
learn, what do they like/dislike, and the best
ways they get things done.
6. AI is a good tool for designing LX/UX,
Assessment, Feedback, providing content …etc.
7. Identify the tasks that machine do better than
teachers. (Don’t waste teacher’s time).

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Thank you!
Ahmed Morsy, PhD.
ahmad@meemain.org