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Serious Games

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Serious Games

Track Type: Symposium | Date: 20 October 2023, Friday| Time: 1515 - 1540 | Speaker: Mr Ivan Boo


Serious Games has gained interest for education and training. Leveraging on the advancement in simulation, data processing, and visualization technologies, serious games are able to contextualize the player’s experience in challenging, realistic environments, supporting situated cognition with granular empirical feedback. In recent year, there are published methods and tools for effectively and deeply infusing pedagogy and instruction inside digital games. The speaker will share the state of the art of the serious games and introduce the pedagogical theories and models most relevant to serious games and their implications on serious games design. The session will share examples of how proper integration of games in training and assessment. By using an actual serious games application, the speaker will demonstrate the main mechanics and models that are being used in serious games designs, with a particular focus on assessment, feedback, and learning analytics.




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