Game-based historical learning
Serious games research typically uses modified computer games as virtual learning environments. Virtual heritage projects typically aim to provide three-dimensional interactive digital environments that aid the understanding of new cultures and languages, rather than merely transfer learning terms a...
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| author | Champion, Erik |
| author2 | Richard E. Ferdig |
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| description | Serious games research typically uses modified computer games as virtual learning environments. Virtual heritage projects typically aim to provide three-dimensional interactive digital environments that aid the understanding of new cultures and languages, rather than merely transfer learning terms and strategies from static prescriptive media such as books. As an intersection between the two fields, game-based historical learning aims to provide ways in which the technology, interactivity, or cultural conventions of computer gaming can help afford the cultural understanding of the self, of the past, or of others with mindsets quite different to our own. This chapter will outline the major technological, pedagogical, and evaluation issues pertinent to game-based historical learning, provide working definitions of virtual learning that may lend themselves to evaluations, and endeavor to explain how specific issues of game-based historical learning may be addressed. It will also forecast trends and suggest approaches to help focus this diverse field. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-374922017-02-27T14:43:15Z Game-based historical learning Champion, Erik Richard E. Ferdig Serious games research typically uses modified computer games as virtual learning environments. Virtual heritage projects typically aim to provide three-dimensional interactive digital environments that aid the understanding of new cultures and languages, rather than merely transfer learning terms and strategies from static prescriptive media such as books. As an intersection between the two fields, game-based historical learning aims to provide ways in which the technology, interactivity, or cultural conventions of computer gaming can help afford the cultural understanding of the self, of the past, or of others with mindsets quite different to our own. This chapter will outline the major technological, pedagogical, and evaluation issues pertinent to game-based historical learning, provide working definitions of virtual learning that may lend themselves to evaluations, and endeavor to explain how specific issues of game-based historical learning may be addressed. It will also forecast trends and suggest approaches to help focus this diverse field. 2008 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37492 http://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/full-text-pdf/20088 IGI Global Publishers restricted |
| spellingShingle | Champion, Erik Game-based historical learning |
| title | Game-based historical learning |
| title_full | Game-based historical learning |
| title_fullStr | Game-based historical learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Game-based historical learning |
| title_short | Game-based historical learning |
| title_sort | game-based historical learning |
| url | http://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/full-text-pdf/20088 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37492 |