An Emerging Model of Creative Game-Based Learning

Sisarica, Anja; Maiden, Neil

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“…The game's content and environment are designed to encourage players to undertake certain types of creative thinking throughout the play process'. 32 A limited number of makers for outdoor heritage sites have got the message and are using games in mobile applications that subvert the principle of didactic, information-heavy interpretation very successfully. Jewish Time Jump (discussed in detail elsewhere in this issue by Owen Gotlieb) is one very effective example; Up River is another.…”

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Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below

Poole

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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University of the West of England, BristolOver the last decade, digital mobile technologies have played a leading role in transforming the visitor experience at European sites of heritage.2 Applications for phone and tablet have allowed heritage site managers greater control over the delivery of interpretative content by triggering automatic audio or visual interventions. Paradoxically, mobile apps have simultaneously permitted visitors an impression of greater agency in environments less cluttered with signage and props, and less reliant on their ability to find the right page in the guidebook. Apps invite forms of content design in which greater degrees of interactivity and even personalisation are privileged. In the educational sector, this potential is slowly gaining recognition and a number of institutions have begun to experiment with locative app design to change the ways students engage with, understand and evaluate primary historical evidence.3 However, most critical commentary on these processes has been dominated to date by reflections on form rather than content and purpose, and little in the way of systematic analysis of locative experiential interpretation at historic sites using mobile devices has been attempted. 4 The question we should in any case be asking perhaps, is not 'how can we use mobile and digital technologies to get larger and more diverse audiences through the door?', but 'how can we use mobile and digitally enhanced forms of interpretation to change the questions we ask and the ways in which we engage with historic sites?' There are, broadly, three main ways in which digital technologies, some mobile and some static, have been considered for use in the heritage environment: as an augmented guidebook and information resource, as a tool for enhanced simulation, and (less frequently) as a tool for changing the rules by which we construct and define historical knowledge at heritage sites. This essay reviews each of these approaches in turn and argues the case for a deeper engagement with the third. Locative mobile technologies, it is suggested, have the potential to positively transform some of the ways in which visitors to heritage sites are addressed, challenging the notion that historical data is best presented for passive consumption, and promoting, as an alternative, an experiential model of knowledge built upon agency, dialogue and informed choice. Ghosts in the Garden, an experimental project in which the author was a researcher and participant, is presented here as a case study. Its rationale was to disrupt both the form and the content of traditional interpretative approaches to the use of mobile, firstly by concealing the technology, secondly by requiring collective evaluation and decision making, and thirdly by commissioning original historical content 'from below'. Downloadable tour appsIn the first approach considered here, phone and tablet apps, freely downloadable from the Apple IStore and Google Play, dominate the field, and companies like Audio Tours, Treasure Trails an...

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Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below

Poole

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…Sin embargo, dentro de los resultados relevantes para el ámbito de este proyecto se destacan las experiencias presentadas en el Museo de Arte de Barcelona (Melero, Hernández-Leo, & Manatunga, 2015), que introduce actividades para escolares y, en general, propuestas aplicadas de mobile learning (Ver: Su y Cheng, 2013; García-Cabot, de-Marcos, y Garcia-Lopez, 2015; Pace y Dipace, 2015; Ma, Oikonomou, y Borrero, F., Sanjuán, P. & Ramírez-González, G. (2015). lero, Hernández-Leo, & Manatunga, 2015), which introduce school activities, and, in general, proposed applications to mobile learning (See: Su & Cheng, 2013;García-Cabot, de-Marcos, & García-Lopez, 2015;Pace & Dipace, 2015;Ma, Oikonomou, & Jain, 2011;Sisarica & Maiden, 2013;Landers, Bauer, Callan, & Armstrong, 2015;Perez-Valle, Aguirrezabal, & Sillaurren, 2014;Herbert, Charles, Moore, & Charles, 2014;Amriani, Aji, Utomo, & Junus, 2013;de-Sousa-Borges, Durelli, Reis, & Isotani, 2014), analysis from the theory (See: Bouca, 2012;Giessen, 2015;Seiffert & Nothhaft, 2015;Oja & Riekki, 2012;Favorskaya, Sharma, Jain, & Howlett, 2015;Carter, Downs, Nansen, Harrop, & Gibbs, 2014), proposed applications in tourism and cultural subjects (See: Minucciani & Garnero, 2013); Pace & Dipace, 2015;Carroll, Hoffman, Han, & Rosson, 2015;Minazzi, 2015), and alternatives with an NFC interface (See Sarmenta, 2012) or augmented reality (See: Han, Jung, & Gibson, 2013;De-los-Ríos, Cabrera-Umpiérrez, Arredondo, Páramo, Baranski, Meis, & Del-Mar-Villafranca, 2014). Based on the results of this literary analysis, it is seen that this is an area yet to be explored and exploited at the level of case studies, although the available literature on the theoretical foundation and its application to other technological options is quite advanced.…”

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“…This design describes the characteristics that directly affect the implementation of the serious game, which are developed through our own methodology, adapted from the Scrum methodology, a well-established methodology for this type of technological development (Sisarica & Maiden, 2013;Landers et al, 2015;Pérez-Valle et al, 2014).…”

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“…Diseño de la aplicación En este diseño se describen las características que influyen directamente en la implementación del juego serio, las que se desarrollan mediante una metodología propia, adaptada de la metodología Scrum, una metodología muy afianzada para este tipo de desarrollos tecnológicos (Sisarica & Maiden, 2013;Landers et al, 2015;Perez-Valle et al, 2014).…”

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Técnicas de gamificación en el turismo, prueba de aplicación, Casa Museo Mosquera

2015

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Las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones [TIC] aplicadas al sector del turismo son un tema de gran actualidad; su capacidad para agregar elementos de interacción promueve la formación de nuevos entornos en los museos y su renovación. Este artículo presenta la experiencia del uso de un juego serio desarrollado para la Casa Museo Mosquera. Su aplicación, a nivel piloto durante la Semana Santa de 2015, evidenció sus efectos positivos y entregó algunas lecciones para futuros desarrollos, tales como: este tipo de aplicaciones fomenta el aprendizaje y la recepción de la información por parte de los visitantes al museo; los turistas recomiendan realizar este tipo de aplicaciones, tanto para otros museos, como para otros lugares históricos de la ciudad; las limitantes disminuyen la cantidad de personas que interactúan con la aplicación, no tener Wi-Fi en las instalaciones de la Casa Museo, no permitió que más usuarios interesados utilizaran la aplicación y leyeran las etiquetas QR; es recomendable tener la aplicación en una tienda de aplicaciones para facilitar su instalación. La aplicación tuvo gran acogida entre el personal del museo y los visitantes, dinamizo la visita y la mejoró, convirtiéndola en una experiencia interactiva; este tipo de aplicaciones pueden revolucionar la industria del turismo en la medida en que se escalen a más escenarios, porque además son muy llamativas para los visitantes; El mundo actual y su entorno tecnológico son un entorno ideal para la evolución de la aplicación de técnicas de gamificación, tanto en el turismo, como en otros aspectos de la vida cotidiana; Los juegos son una experiencia tecnológica llamativa para todos los públicos y motivan a los visitantes a recomendar los sitios que visitan, gracias a las buenas experiencias que representan los entornos renovados con este tipo de aplicaciones tecnológicas.

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“…Besides practicality, creativity is another important design factor of an effective game-based learning system [33]. Facilitated by advances in web-related technologies, crowdsourcing has become a new technique for practicing open innovation, for example, the sheep market [2], T-shirt design [9], and software idea competition [21].…”

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Leveraging Crowd for Game-based Learning: A Case Study of Privacy Education Game Design and Evaluation by Crowdsourcing

Wang¹,

Tao²,

Kai³

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As the Internet grows in importance, it is vital to develop methods and techniques for educating end-users to improve their awareness of online privacy. Web-based education tools have been proven effective in many domains and have been increasingly adopted by many online professional and educational services. However, the design and development of Web-based education tools for online privacy is still in the early stage. The traditional solutions always involve privacy experts who have sophisticated expertise. Such involvement can make the tool development costly. Furthermore, it is not clear how inspiring and effective these education tools are to general users of varying backgrounds, specially to novice users who have rarely dealt with online privacy issues before. In this paper, we design, develop, and evaluate a game-based privacy learning system by leveraging the wisdom of a crowd of non-experts on Amazon Mechanic Turk. Empirical study demonstrates that the crowd can provide high-quality ideas of designing and developing a practical, educational privacy learning game.

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An Emerging Model of Creative Game-Based Learning

Cited by 6 publications

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Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below

Ghosts in the Garden: locative gameplay and historical interpretation from below

Técnicas de gamificación en el turismo, prueba de aplicación, Casa Museo Mosquera

Leveraging Crowd for Game-based Learning: A Case Study of Privacy Education Game Design and Evaluation by Crowdsourcing

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