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Serious Games Analytics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

Serious Games Analytics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement. Chapter authors use empirical research methodologies, including existing, experimental, and emerging conceptual frameworks, from various fields, such as: computer science software engineering educational data mining statistics information visualization. Serious games is an emerging field where the games are created using sound learning theories and instructional design principles to maximize learning and training success. But how would stakeholders know what play-learners have done in the game environment, and if the actions performance brings about learning? Could they be playing the game for fun, really learning with evidence of performance improvement, or simply gaming the system, i.e., finding loopholes to fake that they are making progress? This volume endeavors to answer these questions.

Games: Purpose and Potential in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Games: Purpose and Potential in Education

The field of Games is rapidly expanding, prompting institutions throughout the world to create game development programs and courses focusing on educational games. As a result, games have also become a hot topic in the area of educational technology research. This increased interest is due to the technological advancement of digital games and the fact that a new, digital generation is emerging with a strong gaming background. Games: Purpose and Potential in Education focuses on the issues of incorporating games into education and instructional design. Ideas of identity development, gender diversity, motivation, and integrating instructional design within game development are addressed since each of these areas is important in the field of instructional design and can have a significant impact on learning. This volume brings together leading experts, researchers, and instructors in the field of gaming and explores current topics in gaming and simulations, available resources, and the future of the field.

Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning: Digital Role Playing as a Motivator of Study
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning: Digital Role Playing as a Motivator of Study

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As part of an international dialogue between researchers in educational technology, this title investigates where games can motivate students to learn and improve their knowledge and skills.

Teaching and Learning for Adult Skill Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Teaching and Learning for Adult Skill Acquisition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

The book, Teaching and Learning for Adult Skill Acquisition: Applying the Dreyfus and Dreyfus Model in Different Fields, will fill a unique niche in the field of adult, higher, and workforce education. It offers a current volume for scholars and practitioners based on both empirical studies and practice-based research on adult skill acquisition and development. Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1980, 1988, 2004, 2008) developed the novice to expert model of skill acquisition that illustrates growth over the course of a person’s career in a particular domain. The skill model highlights a learner’s movement across six levels of skill development: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert...

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of disability identity in a variety of science fiction texts: adult novels, young adult literature and comics, as well as ethnographic research with gamers. Haukaas argues that instead of being a means of escapism, simulated experiences are a valuable tool for cultivating self-acceptance and promoting empathy. Through increasingly accessible technology and innovative gameplay, traditional hierarchies are dismantled, and different ways of being are both explored and validated. Ultimately, the book aims to expand our understandings of disability, performance, and self-creation in significant ways by exploring the boundless selves that the simulated environments in these texts allow.

Assessment in Game-Based Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Assessment in Game-Based Learning

The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction. This, in turn, necessitates alternative ways to assess the kinds of learning that is taking place in the virtual worlds or informal settings. accordingly, aligning learning and assessment is the core for creating a favorable and effective learning environment. The edited volume will cover the current state of research, methodology, assessment, and technology of game-based learning. There will be contributions from international distinguished researchers which will present innovative work in the areas of educational psychology, educational diagnostics, educational technology, and learning sciences. The edited volume will be divided into four major parts.

Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. It explores how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust teaching resources"--Provided by publisher.

Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-04-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Contains research and current trends used in digital simulations of teaching, surveying the uses of games and simulations in teacher education.

Intelligent Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2614

Intelligent Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

This set compiles more than 240 chapters from the world's leading experts to provide a foundational body of research to drive further evolution and innovation of these next-generation technologies and their applications, of which scientific, technological, and commercial communities have only begun to scratch the surface.

Design, Utilization, and Analysis of Simulations and Game-Based Educational Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Design, Utilization, and Analysis of Simulations and Game-Based Educational Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Games and simulations have emerged as new and effective tools for educational learning by providing interactivity and integration with online resources that are typically unavailable with traditional educational resources. Design, Utilization, and Analysis of Simulations and Game-Based Educational Worlds presents developments and evaluations of games and computer-mediated simulations in order to showcase a better understanding of the role of electronic games in multiple studies. This book is useful for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to gain a deeper comprehension of the relationship between research and practice of electronic gaming and simulations in the educational environment.