Title :
A Development and Evaluation of Educational Board Game Design Course: An Example of Pre-service Teacher
Author :
Huang, Chiung Wei ; Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ; Liu, Li Chun ; Lin, Chun Hung
Author_Institution :
Grad. Inst. of Learning & Instruction, Nat. Central Univ., Jhongli, Taiwan
Abstract :
This study employs cooperative learning to create an Educational Board Game Design Course. The curriculum of activities required pre-service teachers to work cooperatively in learning-groups to complete a prototype of a board game. Group discussion via an Online Interactive Platform supported the process of the participants as they carried out the curriculum of activities. A questionnaire enabled an understanding of the pre-service teachers´ learning performances. The results showed that each group could completely design games that operate smoothly and have relevance to academic subjects. Pre-service teachers´ self-efficacy enhanced after the cooperative learning process. Control over game difficulty levels and the skill of teaching game directions need strengthening in the future. Besides, providing more specific learning content is necessary for any future course.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer games; computer science education; educational courses; cooperative learning process; educational board game design course; group discussion; learning-group; online interactive platform; preservice teacher learning performance; teacher self-efficacy; Correlation; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Encyclopedias; Games; Software; board game; cooperative learning; pre-service teacher; self-efficacy;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takamatsu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0885-4
DOI :
10.1109/DIGITEL.2012.25
