Title :
A Framework of Educational Control in Game-based Learning Environment
Author :
Takaoka, Ryo ; Shimokawa, Masayuki ; Okamoto, Toshio
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Educ., Yamaguchi Univ., Yamaguchi, Japan
Abstract :
The popularity of computer games has grown enormously in recent year. Many studies and systems that incorporate the inherent elements such as "pleasure" and "fun" in the game to improve a learner\´s motivation have been developed in the field of learning environments. However, there are still few studies of situations where many learners gather at a single computer and participate in a game-based learning environment and where a computer designs the learning process by controlling the interactions such as competition, collaboration, and learning by teaching between learners. Therefore we propose a method that generates interaction between learners intentionally to create a learning opportunity that is based on the knowledge understanding model of an individual learner. In this paper, we explain the framework of our game-based learning environment (GBLE) called "Who becomes the king in the country of mathematics?" and describe the method for educational control in the learning environment. Furthermore, we introduce some comments a principle and a teacher for learning experiment of our GBLE which we carried out in a junior high school. From the result of the experiment and some comments, we noticed that the power of the game have possibility to make a relationship among students weaken and go learning forward in new relationship in the world of the game.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer games; human computer interaction; GBLE; Game-based Learning Environment; computer games; educational control; learning opportunity; Collaboration; Computers; Educational institutions; Games; Mathematical model; educational control; game-based learning environment (GBLE); interaction among students; junior high school; motivation; pedagogical agents;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-209-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-3761
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2011.18