Gamification In Higher Education Research Articles

수리계획법 학습을 위한 부분집합총합문제 기반 퍼즐 게임 개발

최근 즐거움과 학습 효과를 동시에 제공하는 교육용 기능성 게임이 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 교육용 게임들을 유아나 아동들을 대상으로 하고 있고, 고등 교육에서 이러한 게임을 활용하는 것은 여전히 어려운 실정이다. 반면, 본 논문은 대학생들에게 수리계획법을 가르치는데 활용할 수 있는 교육용 게임을 개발하고자 한다. 잘 알려져 있듯이, 대부분의 퍼즐 게임들은 연관된 최적화 문제로의 변형이 가능하며, 본 논문에서는 부분집합총합문제 기반 교육용 퍼즐 게임을 제안한다. 이 게임은 사용자가 퍼즐을 플레이하거나 이를 풀기 위한 수리계획모형을 작성할 수 있게 도와준다. 나아가, 사용자들은 모형 작성을 위한 적절한 안내를 제공받으며, 작성된 모형은 자동 생성된 데이터들에 의해 평가된다. 본 논문의 교육용 게임은 산업공학이나 경영과학 분야 대학생들에게 기본적인 수리계획모형을 가르치는데 특히 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다. In recent, much attention has been paid to the educational serious games that provide both fun and learning effects. However, most educational games have been targeted at the infants and children, and it is still hard to use such games in higher education. On the contrary, this paper aims to develop an educational game for teaching mathematical programming to the undergraduates. It is well known that most puzzle games can be transformed into associated optimization problem and vice versa, and this paper proposes a simple educational game based on the subset sum problem. This game enables the users to play the puzzle and construct their own mathematical programming model for solving it. Moreover, the users are provided with appropriate instructions for modeling and their models are evaluated by using the data automatically generated. It is expected that the educational game in this paper will be helpful for teaching basic programming models to the students in industrial engineering or management science.

Students' attitudes toward playing games and using games in education: Comparing Scotland and the Netherlands

Games-based learning has captured the interest of educationalists and industrialists who seek to exploit the characteristics of computer games as they are perceived by some to be a potentially effective approach for teaching and learning. Despite this interest in using games-based learning there is a dearth of empirical evidence supporting the validity of the approach covering the wider context of gaming and education. This study presents a large scale gaming survey, involving 887 students from 13 different Higher Education (HE) institutes in Scotland and the Netherlands, which examines students' characteristics related to their gaming preferences, game playing habits, and their perceptions and thoughts on the use of games in education. It presents a comparison of three separate groups of students: a group in regular education in a Scottish university, a group in regular education in universities in the Netherlands and a distance learning group from a university in the Netherlands. This study addresses an overall research question of: Can computer games be used for educational purposes at HE level in regular and distance education in different countries? The study then addresses four sub-research questions related to the overall research question:•What are the different game playing habits of the three groups?•What are the different motivations for playing games across the three groups?•What are the different reasons for using games in HE across the three groups?•What are the different attitudes towards games across the three groups?To our knowledge this is the first in-depth cross-national survey on gaming and education. We found that a large number of participants believed that computer games could be used at HE level for educational purposes and that further research in the area of game playing habits, motivations for playing computer games and motivations for playing computer games in education are worthy of extensive further investigation. We also found a clear distinction between the views of students in regular education and those in distance education. Regular education students in both countries rated all motivations for playing computer games as significantly more important than distance education students. Also the results suggest that Scottish students aim to enhance their social experience with regards to competition and cooperation, while Dutch students aim to enhance their leisurely experience with regards to leisure, feeling good, preventing boredom and excitement.

The Value of Team-Based Mixed-Reality (TBMR) Games in Higher Education

This paper reports on a conducted study, measuring the perceptions of post-graduate students on the effectiveness of serious games in the classroom. Four games were used (Project Management Exercise, “Winning Margin” Business Simulation, Management of Change and Management of Product Design and Development) with scenarios ranging from product design to project management. The games might be classified as Team-Based Mixed-Reality (TBMR) games. The games were conducted over the period October 2010 to May 2011and the questionnaires conducted during June 2011. The results, from a sample size of 80 of largely international students, indicated a clear ranking of emotions experienced when participating in the games with “Exciting” outweighing “Apprehensive”, “Bored” and Indifferent”. The majority of students indicated that both “their team winning” and “showing their personal competence” were important to them. However 70% said that working in teams was valuable in itself implying that team-working was a strong element in the conclusion that the games were of value. For all four games, over 60% said that conflict was valuable and over 75% said participating improved their “working in teams” skills. The value of feedback was rated highly, as was improved motivation. Over 60% said that the participation in the games was more useful than lectures on the same topic.

Methodology to Select the Best Business Game in Higher Education

Business simulators are frequently used in higher education for its pedagogical importance. The purpose of this survey is to know the opinion of the faculty staff regarding certain aspects of the game they use in their teaching, using the Macbeth (Measuring Attractiveness by a Category Based Evaluation Technique) approach. This research is supported in the multi-criteria analysis to obtain a classification of several simulation games in the role of its educational features. The methodology establishes a hierarchical order that will allow determining the optimum simulator valuing its pedagogical efficiency.

The barbarians at the gate. Playing the higher education game: observations from the periphery of the field

Higher education is considered by some to be synonymous with learning gained in an institution named as a university. The credentials gained from learning in such locations allow the holders to enter into the elite, which reproduces social exclusion to the benefit of that elite. In England, policy reform has opened up access to higher education to a level of almost mass participation. This has largely been achieved by funding higher education in colleges. However, following the implementation of this recommendation, a recurring criticism is that such learning is not ‘real’ higher education (HE). This article seeks to examine this notion of ‘real’ HE using Bourdieu’s tools of field, habitus and capital. The questions framing the enquiry are: is the field of higher education populated only by institutions named as universities? Has a new field been created? If the field has changed, has the game of higher education changed as new players have entered the field, or does the traditional doxa still prevail? What are the implications of the field games for institutional habitus and capital? Drawing upon the experiences of a college of further education located in the periphery of the field, the questions posed are considered in this context.

The differences in motivations of online game players and offline game players: A combined analysis of three studies at higher education level

Computer games have become a highly popular form of entertainment and have had a large impact on how University students spend their leisure time. Due to their highly motivating properties computer games have come to the attention of educationalists who wish to exploit these highly desirable properties for educational purposes. Several studies have been performed looking at motivations for playing computer games in a general context and in a Higher Education (HE) context. These studies did not focus on the differences in motivations between online and offline game players. Equally the studies did not look at the differences in motivations of people who prefer single player games and people who prefer multiplayer games. If games-based learning is to become a recognised teaching approach then such motivations for playing computer games must be better understood. This paper presents the combined analysis of three studies at HE level, performed over a four year period from 2005 to 2009. The paper focuses on differences of motivations in relation to single player/multiplayer preference and online/offline game participation. The study found that challenge is the top ranking motivation and recognition is the lowest ranking motivation for playing computer games in general. Challenge is also the top ranking motivation for playing games in HE while fantasy and recognition are the lowest ranking motivations for playing games in HE. Multiplayer gamers derive more competition, cooperation, recognition, fantasy and curiosity from playing games and online gamers derive more challenge, cooperation, recognition and control from playing games. Multiplayer gamers and online gamers ranked competition, cooperation and recognition significantly more important for playing games in HE than single players and offline participants.

Up the Down Pay Scale: Teachers vs. Football Coaches

Up the Down Pay Scale: Teachers <i>vs.</i> Football Coaches

Game-based Learning in Technology Management Education: A Novel Business Simulation

Management games allow students to obtain valuable first-hand experience that is of particular value in a field such as technology management, which usually involves substantial risk as well as significant time lags between a managerial decision and its effects. In drawing from more than fifteen years of experience with management games in higher education, we have developed a management simulation for teaching technology management, a field that is increasingly regarded an important area of study for engineering students. This paper outlines a blended-learning design for a course on technology management, describes the various didactical elements as well as their effects in class, and addresses the technical implementation of the management game as a service-oriented multi-tier application in Java.

EMERGO: A methodology and toolkit for developing serious games in higher education

Societal changes demand educators to apply new pedagogical approaches. Many educational stakeholders feel that serious games could play a key role in fulfilling this demand, and they lick their chops when looking at the booming industry of leisure games. However, current toolkits for developing leisure games show severe shortcomings when applied to serious games. Developing effective serious games in an efficient way requires a specific approach and tool set. This article describes the EMERGO methodology and generic toolkit for developing and delivering scenario-based serious games that are aimed at the acquisition of complex cognitive skills in higher education. Preliminary evaluation results with case developers using the EMERGO methodology and toolkit and with learners using EMERGO cases are presented.

The Practical Use and Effects of Games in Higher Education―Gaming and Ensuring the Reflection in Management Studies―

The Practical Use and Effects of Games in Higher Education―Gaming and Ensuring the Reflection in Management Studies―

大学教育におけるゲームづくり実践とその意義

大学教育におけるゲームづくり実践とその意義

Playing the alliance game in higher education

(2001). Playing the alliance game in higher education. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 6-11.