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It is time to play a game
Maja Pivec, FH JOANNEUM
Overview:
Game-based learning
UniGame Project and Platform
SIG-GLUE Project
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Game-based learning
…The reason most kids
don‘t like school
is not that the work is too hard,
but that it is utterly boring.
(Dr. Seymour Papert, Prof. at the MIT)
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Game-based learning
When using games for education
 learners are encouraged to combine knowledge from
different areas to choose a solution or to make a
decision at a certain point,
 learners can test how the outcome of the game changes
based on their decisions and actions,
 learners are encouraged to contact other team
members and discuss and negotiate subsequent steps,
 thus improving their social skills.
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Game-based learning
Games
enhance MOTIVATION and
increase students INTEREST in subject matter
... yet the extent to which this translates into more
effective learning is less clear [Druckman (1995) ]
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UNIGAME: Game based Learning in
Universities and Lifelong Learning
- promote game-based learning approach for
universities and life-long learning in Europe
- apply different topics for game-based learning
- select games and implement them in different
countries
- focus on social skills
- apply collaborative learning and community
knowledge building approaches
This Projects is supported by the EU Minerva.
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Game Platform
http://unigame.fh-joanneum.at
This Projects is supported by the EU Minerva.
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INFORMATION
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Quick info
Tour
Rules
About us
• Training and help.
It is composed of
several screens which
aim to help new users
of the game to get
information about how
to use it.
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COMMUNITY
• Chat
• Forum
• Community Area can
be used by visitors of
the website who do not
participate in a game
for communicating
using the forum or a
text chat module.
This Projects is supported by the EU Minerva.
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Time plan of the game
Posting the final
m ission
statem ent of the
Team
Players feedback
on the teamw ork
Posting the subject standpoints by the
Chips
Team Speakers in the Team Library
Sem inar:
Theme Presentation
Registration / Join Game
Team Work:
Sharing Subjects
Development Strategy
Searching for Information
Team
Session:
Discussion
General
Discussion w ith
moderator
Sem inar:
Feedback
on the Game
ONLINE
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www.sig-glue.net
A Special Interest Group
for the Game-based Learning
in Universities and lifElong learning
EU eLearning initiative 2004 - 2006
© 2004 FH JOANNEUM GMBH. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SUPPORTED BY THE EU ELEARNING PROGRAM.
More and better use of better educational games
FH JOANNEUM GmbH (A)
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (GR)
SCIENTER (IT)
HdM Stuttgart (DE)
Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media (FI)
Öland Folk Highschool (SE)
University of Edinburgh (GB)
© 2004 FH JOANNEUM GMBH. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SUPPORTED BY THE EU ELEARNING PROGRAM.
SIG-GLUE mission
• Convince non-users of games, of their
educational value,
• Make educators aware of how to use games
more effectively in education
• Encourage and support game developers in the
creation of better educational games
This Projects is supported by the EU eLearning Program.
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SIG-GLUE objectives
• Establish
cross-cultural
structured
collaboration and research in the gamebased learning area,
• create tools that support propagating of
knowledge, skills, experience in the gamebased learning,
This Projects is supported by the EU eLearning Program.
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SIG-GLUE objectives
• monitor the quality and establish a quality
stamp for game-based learning resources,
• contribute to innovation of the European and
international institution and Universities
This Projects is supported by the EU eLearning Program.
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SIG-GLUE results
• International community on GBL
• Task Forces
• National SIG-GLUE events & workshops on
game-based learning
• International SIG-GLUE events & workshops on
game-based learning
• News letter (bi-monthly & web-site)
This Projects is supported by the EU eLearning Program.
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SIG-GLUE results
• Guidelines and case studies: application of
game based learning
• Guidelines for development of educational
games
• Formalised quality reviewing procedure
• Support for various platform users such as
WebCT or „UniGame: Social Skills and
Knoweldge Training“
This Projects is supported by the EU eLearning Program.
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CONTACT:
Maja Pivec
[email protected]
Anastasia Sfiri
[email protected]
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