Balancing Competing Goods: Design Challenges Associated with Complex Learning

Neupane, Aatish; Gedris, Kira; McDonald, Jason K.; Hansen, Derek L.; Balzotti, Jonathon

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“…We intend that this approach gives teachers data points that will inform classroom discussion, helping teachers decide what to emphasize and how to respond to students' experiences within the simulation. We have used the PCS format to develop students' interest in exploring a potential discipline as a possible career (Giboney et al, 2021), help novices develop a sense of self-efficacy as they start to explore a discipline (Winters et al, 2020), improve writing skills (Balzotti et al, 2022), and prepare them for important professional realities like how to address ethical dilemmas (Neupane et al, 2021).…”

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“Are These People Real?”: Designing and Playtesting an Alternative Reality, Educational Simulation

McDonald

Balzotti

Franklin

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In this design case, we report our design and playtest of a form of alternative reality, educational simulation that we call a playable case study (PCS). One of the features that make our simulations unique is how they are designed to implement a principle called This Is Not a Game, or TINAG, meaning that the affordances we design into the simulation suggest to students that the experience they are having is real, in contrast to the way the artificial nature of the expe- rience is highlighted in many computer games. In this case, we describe some challenges we encountered in designing a PCS to align with TINAG, along with how the situation in which we play tested the simulation highlighted other ways in which the principle of TINAG was challenging to achieve.

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confidence: 99%