Week 1 - Second Iteration of Games Based Learning MOOC http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com/ Video http://bit.ly/QbmCIJ

1. READY TO PLAY?

3. SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
NO SERIOUSLY…..

5. Overview
• What is Game Based Learning?
• What are Serious Games
• What about COTS – Commercial Off the Shelf
Games

6. Participatory Culture
Game Based Learning

8. AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS
And the
WORLDS they
live in

9. Big “G” Games

10. G Factors
• Collective Intelligence
• Gamification
• Smart Tools
• Convergence
• Distributed Intelligence
• Constant Assessment

11. The New Literacies
• Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings
as a form of problem-solving
• Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities
for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
• Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic
models of real-world processes
• Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and
remix media content

12. The New Literacies
• Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment
and shift focus as needed to salient details.
• Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact
meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
• Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge
and compare notes with others toward a common goal
• Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and
credibility of different information sources

13. The New Literacies
• Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the
flow of stories and information across multiple
modalities
• Networking — the ability to search for,
synthesize, and disseminate information
• Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse
communities, discerning and respecting multiple
perspectives, and grasping and following
alternative norms.
Source: http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E
%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

14. Or as Michigan State puts it…
Source:
http://seriousgames.msu.edu/

15. Game Genres
• Mini games:
– Small, easy-to-access game built to be simple and
addictive, which often focuses on mastering an action
and can provide awareness of more complicated
issues.
• Interactive metrics:
– Simulation in which students typically try to impact
critical metrics by allocating resources along
competing categories and getting feedback of their
decisions through graphs and charts.

16. Game Genres
• Frame games:
– Students engage familiar games and puzzles such
as Wheel of Fortune®, solitaire, or memory, with
important pieces of awareness or task-based
content replacing trivia or icons.
• Branching story:
– Simulation in which students make a series of
decisions via a multiple choice interface to
progress through and impact an event.

17. Game Genres
• Practice ware:
– Real-time, often 3D sims that encourages
participants to repeat actions in high fidelity
situations until the skills become natural in the
real-world counterpart
• Virtual product or virtual lab :
– A series of challenges/puzzles to be solved using
on-screen representations of real-world objects
and software.

18. Additional Genres

20. COTS
Commercial Off the Shelf

21. Console Games
• Portal
• Skyrim
• Assassin's Creed
• Others

22. Cognitive Dissonance

23. MMORPGs
• WoW
• Minecraft
• TERAOnline
• EVEOnline
• Club Penguin
• Poptropica
• Others

24. MMORPG
• Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing
Game
• End Content requires cooperative groups
known as guilds
• World of Warcraft, Guild Wars II, and League
of Legends

26. Virtual Worlds
Immersive Online Environments that
allow individuals to interact in each
other and environment.
Accessible 24 / 7
Metaverse

27. Naming Your Avatar

29. Virtual World
• Synchronous world
• Persistent network of people
• Avatar representation
• Facilitate by networked computers
• Definition by Mark Bell

30. November 2 & 3

31. Sandbox Genre
• Open world
• Video game where the player is given
considerable amount of freedom
• Allows for Content Creation
• Minecraft

32. Mobile Games
• Mobile Apps
• Alternate Reality Games
• Location Based Games

33. Vocabulary
• Simulation v. Game
• Engagement v. Fun

34. How can I use Games?

35. Before using Games
• Determine what your objectives are.
• Determine simulation requirements and
reasonable computer capacity.
– This will determine if students will encounter
simulation in class / on campus or off campus

36. Before using Games
• Use the simulation yourself
– Student’s will expect that you have done this and
can solve any of their problems

37. Before Games
• Develop grading and task rubric
– Student’s will want clear goals and objectives
• Pre-survey
• Actual task
• Discussion

38. Before using Games
• Assign task with realistic timeframe
– If simulation is too large, cut it down
• Request feedback / post survey
– Student’s want to know that you are doing this for
a reason
– Survey’s allow students to vent and point out
issues and areas for improvement

39. Using Games
1. Ice breakers
– Utilize serious games/ simulations to introduce
class to new topics and stimulate discussion
2. Projects
– Group or individual work
– Use to reinforce class concepts and assess
mastery

40. Using Games
3. Competitions
– Break students into groups and have them
compete for prizes / extra credit
– Set up a computer lab for real time competition/
tournaments. ****
– Show screen on SmartBoard, so teams can share
tactics/ learn new methods. *****

42. Place
• On the SmartBoard before class
• On the SmartBoard during class
• In computer classroom
• Computer Commons
• Student’s personal Computers

43. Big “G” Games

44. G Factors
• Collective Intelligence
• Gamification
• Smart Tools
• Convergence
• Distributed Intelligence
• Constant Assessment

46. Games for You to Test

48. REST OF THE WEEK
• Play one or all of the games
– Post Finding in Discussion Forum
– Screenshot
– Link up and place it in Diigo
– Tweet it out

49. REST OF THE WEEK
• Google Doc
– Add a game
– In 25 – 50 words tell us about it
– Would you use it?
– Why? Why not?
– Found something better? Share the link!

50. Wednesday – 7 pm MST
• TWEETCHAT
– 60 minutes of twitter discussion
– Start with quick intro
– Then 4 questions
– #gamemooc

51. Thursday – 6 pm MST
• Broadcast over Games MOOC YouTube
• Discussion of Games Based Research and how
to use Game Based Learning!
– Hannah Geber and Sandy Abrams