Dans un contexte marqué par une rupture entre la culture numérique des jeunes et la culture universitaire, les pédagogies basées sur l’usage de jeux sérieux apparaissent comme une solution de remplacement aux pratiques traditionnelles. Ils sont en effet susceptibles de solliciter la motivation des étudiants et de leur permettre de développer des connaissances dans le cadre de situations d’apprentissage complexes, et, dans un certain sens, plus authentiques. Nous discutons ici, à partir des travaux de deux équipes, de différentes acceptions retenues pour l’expression « jeu sérieux ». Nous montrons l’impact de ce choix sur le processus de conception d’un jeu ainsi que sur l’évaluation des apprentissages.Within a context characterized by a gap between youth digital culture and university traditional habits, game-based learning is now considered as an alternative pedagogy. Serious games have the power to foster motivation and to allow the learners to face “authentic” and complex situations to develop knowledge. This paper is based on the research works of two different research teams. It aims at discussing the uses of different definitions for the expression “serious game”. We show that the choice of a definition has an important impact on the design of the game and on the knowledge assessment process

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Science Created by You (SCY) is a project on learning in science and technology domains. SCY uses a pedagogical approach that centres around products, called 'emerging learning objects- (ELOs) that are created by students. Students work individually and collaboratively in SCY-Lab (the general SCY learning environment) on 'missions' that are guided by socio-scientific questions (for example 'How can we design a CO2-friendly house?'). Fulfilling SCY missions requires a combination of knowledge from different content areas (eg, physics, mathematics, biology, as well as social sciences). While on a SCY mission, students perform several types of learning activities that can be characterised as productive processes (experiment, game, share, explain, design, etc), they encounter multiple resources, collaborate with varying coalitions of peers and use changing constellations of tools and scaffolds. The configuration of SCY-Lab is adaptive to the actual learning situation and ma y provide advice to students on appropriate learning activities, resources, tools and scaffolds, or peer students who can support the learning process. The SCY project aims at students between 12 and 18 years old. In the course of the project, a total of four SCY missions will be developed, of which one is currently available

Science Created by You (SCY) learning environments are computer-based environments in which students learn about science topics in the context of addressing a socioscientific problem. Along their way to a solution for this problem students produce many types of intermediate products or learning objects. SCY learning environments center the entire learning process around creating, sharing, discussing, and re-using these learning objects. This instructional approach requires dedicated instructional designs, which are supplied in the form