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Serious Games Network
The document discusses Tallinn University's experiences with serious games. It describes past projects involving educational games for teaching European history and supporting child development. It also outlines the current Serious Games Network (SEGAN) project, which aims to systematize European approaches to serious games. Additionally, it discusses an innovative teaching scenario piloted through the iTEC project where students design their own educational games.
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- 2. Terminology • Serious Games – Games for serious purpose – Not only for entertainment – E.g: educa$on, defense, health care, … • Network – Share informa$on and prac$ces – Not to produce something
- 3. Goal of the Presenta8on Share Tallinn University experiences in serious games
- 4. A: Jump, B: Shoot What more could you need Wery Demo$va$onal.com
- 5. Tallinn University Experiences • Past – Seleag and Time Mesh – PayTec and Interac$ve Learning Desktop • Present – SEGAN – Serious Games Network – iTec scenario ‐ Students designing educa$onal games • Future – siLang project – Game Interac$ons course
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- 7. SELEAG Goal Develop educa$onal game for teaching history of Europe • 12‐15 age students • 1400 ‐ 2000 period of European history • Mul$disciplinary: history, geography, economics, social and cultural aspects • Mul$lingual and Mul$player • Online • Extendable
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- 10. Goals of the History Curriculum • Rise the interest • Understand main terminology of history • Acquire chronological framework • Know the map • Understand the connec8ons between present and past • See the connec$ons between different historical events • Understand that one event can be interpreted differently • Develop skills needed for jus$fying personal opinion • Put learners in the posi$on of people lived in the past • Defines itself as a member of Europe
- 11. Important Processes that Shaped Europe During Last 600 Years • Reforma$on • French revolu$on • Industrial revolu8on • The born of na$on based countries • Mari8me History and Colonial countries • I World war • II World war • Cold war • European Union • Collapse of the Soviet Union
- 12. Scenario of the Game • Something went wrong in the history • Game reality is different from the real reality • Player has to go back in $me and find out what went wrong • Fix it through several tasks • Get to know the history • Pass the game
- 14. Interac8ve Learning Desktop Tool for suppor$ng kids development 2011 Enterprise Estonia Innova$on voucher grant PayTek
- 15. Problem: small kids are not able to use keyboard and mouse Solu$on: use RFID for star$ng soware and touch screen for manipula$ng the applica$ons
- 16. PayTec Goal Create interac$ve desk for making connec$on between computer environment and real world and support kids mental and physical development
- 17. How it Works • RFID card is glued to the toy • Kid is placing the toy on RFID reader • RF signal starts the soware • Applica$on is manipulated from the touch screen
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- 19. Serious Games Network 2011 ‐ 2014
- 20. SEGAN Summary • Start: 01.12.2011 • Finish: 31.11.2014 • Dura$on: 36 m • Budget: ~ € 0.6 m • Partners: 13 = 10 Universi$es + 3 SME’s • seriousgamesnet.eu • Segan group in FB • seriousgamesnet.eu
- 21. SEGAN Partners • ISEP ‐ Ins$tuto Superior de Engenharia do Porto • VC ‐ Virtual Campus Lda. ‐ Portugal SME • UoL‐FEUL ‐ University of Ljubljana • UCLAN ‐ University of Central Lancashire • KAHO ‐ Katholieke Hogeschool St. Lieven • UNIZAR ‐ Universidad de Zaragoza • Tallinn University • UTH ‐ University of Thessaly • AET ‐ Andamio Educa$on and Technology ‐ Spain SME • Accord ‐ Accord Interna$onal s.r.o. ‐ Czech SME • Corda ‐ Cordia a.s. ‐ Slovakia SME • CIT ‐ Cork Ins$tute of Technology • UCM ‐ Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Baltasar)
- 22. SEGAN Goals • Systema$ze the European approaches to Serious Games • Crea$on of European Associa$on of Game Based Learning
- 23. SEGAN Tasks • Combine theory, research and prac$ce • Coordinate communica$on between projects • Promote community of prac$ce • Evaluate exis$ng project and results • Exchange ideas and exper$se
- 24. SEGAN Methods • Virtual communica$on – seriousgamesnet.eu/community – www.facebook.com/groups/segan • Face to face mee$ngs • Publica$ons • Conferences • Summer schools – 2012 – Zaragoza – 2013 – Tallinn – 2014 – Cork
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- 26. SEGAN Tallinn Summer School • Integrated with Tallinn Summer School – summerschool.tlu.ee • 15‐20 July 2013 (1w) • In English • Target groups: – teachers interested in GBL – interna$onal students interested in game development • Schedule – 1st day – intro lectures – 2 – 4 day – developing educa$onal games – 5th day – closing conference
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- 28. Innova8ve Technologies for an Engaging Classroom Learning Scenario: Students Developing Educa$onal Games
- 29. iTEC Summary • Innova$ve Technologies for an Engaging Classroom • Framework: 7 FP • Start: 01.09.2010 • Finish: 31.11.2014 • 5 cycles • Partners: 27 from 15 countries • Main contractor: European Schoolnet • From Estonia: Tiger Leap Founda$on • itec.eun.org
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- 31. iTEC Goal Develop engaging scenarios for learning in the future classroom
- 32. iTEC Ac8vi8es • Design innova$ve learning scenarios • Develop tools that support scenarios • Pilot scenarios and tools in schools
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- 34. Students Developing Educa8onal Games • Introduc$on of educa$onal games • Evalua$on criteria for games • Selec$on of the curriculum topic • Game design • Develop e.g. with <eAdventure> • Involving experts • Published games in Internet • Evalua$on of games • Younger students test games
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- 36. iTEC Game Scenario Pilo8ng • May 2012 – pre‐pilot – In Estonia 1 teacher • Oct – Dec 2012 – pilot • Jan – Feb 2013 ‐ evalua$on – In Estonia ~20 teachers – Teachers from 12 countries
- 37. Games Introduced by Students During Pre‐Pilot • Estonia board game • Listen CD dame for learning words • Domino board game • Professor Layton adventure hqp://professorlayton.nintendo.com • L.A Noire detec$ve hqp://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire • Sims 3 hqp://www.thesims3.com • LiWle Big Planet puzzle hqp://www.liqlebigplanet.com • NBA 2k12 sports hqp://www.2ksports.com/games/nba2k12 • FIFA11 sports hqp://www.ea.com/soccer/fifa • Portal 2 puzzle hqp://www.thinkwithportals.com
- 38. Pre‐pilot Student’s Game Designs • Escape from the Zoo • Angry Dog • Dog board game
- 39. siLang Project Serious Games on Language Learning 2012 ‐ 2014
- 40. siLang Summary • Framework: Life Long Learning • Start: 1 Dec 2012 • Finish: 30 Now 2014 • Dura$on: 24 mo • Kick off: 10‐11 Dec 2012 Volos • Workload: 1502 D • Budget: 399 071 € • Partners: 6
- 41. siLang Partners • UTH ‐ University of Thessaly (Greece) • HCT ‐ HiST Contract Research (Norway) • CERETETH ‐ Centre for Research and Technology Thessaly (Greece) • Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (Italy) • TLU ‐ Tallinn University (Estonia) • EWF ‐ European Welding Federa$on (Belgium)
- 42. siLang Content • Serious games on language learning • Used in army to train soldiers rapidly • Working language ‐ vehicular language ‐ bridge language ‐ lingua franca ‐ third language • Cultural issues, non‐na$ve speakers, field of engineering – e.g Greek use English in Spain ‐ specific pronuncia$on, cultural prac$ces that affect communica$on, …
- 43. Who Says Videogames don’t pay off in real life? Mo$fake.com
- 44. siLang Goal • Develop serious game for learning vehicular languages (lingua franca) in the work place (taking into account cultural aspects)
- 45. siLang Tasks • Analyze current status of language learning • Develop sound game‐based didac$cal framework • Technical implementa$on of the game • Learning ac$vi$es • Valida$on of the game • Dissemina$on • Exploita$on
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- 47. Course Summary • Previously taught by Ulf Hagen • Belongs to master curriculums: – Interac$ve Media and Knowledge Environments imke.tlu.ee – Bal$c Film and Media ‐ Cross Media www.bfm.ee/programmes/crossmedia • Feb – May 2013 • 3 EAP
- 48. Course Goals • Game research and theory • Game design • Game implementa$on
- 49. Game Interac8ons Course Design • Gamifica$on or Game Based Course Design – Using game mechanics and elements for course design – Mul$‐player real world educa$onal game • PhD thesis – Research project for designing and running the course
- 50. Game Mechanics as Course Elements • Luck – random exercises • Leadership – team and produc$on management • Strategy – planning ac$vi$es • Compe$$on – vo$ng, reviews • Diplomacy – interac$on with students • Resource management – collec$ng study materials
- 51. Game Elements in Course • Learning environment – Game World • Students – Avatars, players • Teacher – Game master • Grades – Points and Levels • Tasks – Quests – Defeat NPCs – Collect items – Cra items • Exam ‐ Boss Fight
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