Cases on digital game-based learning methods, models, and strategies /

• Main Author: Baek, Youngkyun.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Whitton, Nicola.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.
• Subjects: Simulation games in education.; Educational games.; Computer games.; Challenges of game based learning; Digital game based learning; Educational technology innovations; Games in teaching and learning; Instructional games
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book analyzes the implementation of digital game applications for learning as well as addressing the challenges and pitfalls experienced, providing strategies, advice and examples on adopting games into teaching"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• "Come fly with us": playing with girlhood in the world of Pixie Hollow / Maria Velazquez
• Using MMORPGs in classrooms: stories vs. teachers as sources of motivation / Mete Akcaoglu
• Are Wii having fun yet? / Christina Badman, Matthew DeNote
• Beyond Hidden bodies and lost pigs: student perceptions of foreign language learning with interactive fiction / Joe Pereira
• Civilization IV in 7th grade social studies: motivating and enriching student learning with constructivism, content standards, and 21st century skills / Solomon Senrick
• QRienteering: mobilising the m-learner with affordable learning games for campus inductions / Christopher Horne
• Enhancing nutritional learning outcomes within a simulation and pervasive game-based strategy / Mark McMahon
• "Sell your bargains" or playing a mixed-reality game to spice-up teaching in higher education / Chrissi Nerantzi
• Medicina: methods, models, strategies / Amanda Müller, Gregory Mathews
• Strategies for effective digital games development and implementation / T. Lim ... [et al.]
• Learning and teaching as communicative actions: broken window as a model of transmedia game learning / Scott J. Warren, Anjum Najmi
• Get your head in the game: digital game-based learning with game maker / Brian Herrig
• Elements of game design: developing a meaningful game design curriculum for the classroom / Danielle Herro
• Game-making in a fourth grade art classroom using Gamestar Mechanic / Michelle Aubrecht
• Using game design as a means to make computer science accessible to adolescents / Roxana Hadad
• 3D GameLab: quest-based pre-service teacher education / Chris Haskell
• Preparing pre-service teachers for game-based learning in schools / Soojeong Lee
• Death in Rome: using an online game for inquiry-based learning in a pre-service teacher training course / Shannon Kennedy-Clark, Vilma Galstaun, Kate Anderson
• Games, models, and simulations in the classroom: designing for epistemic activities / Terence C. Ahern, Angela Dowling
• The role of animations and manipulatives in supporting learning and communication in mathematics classrooms / Lida J. Uribe-Flórez, Jesús Trespalacios
• It's all in how you play the game: increasing the impact of gameplay in classrooms / Shani Reid, Helene Jennings, Scot Osterweil
• Challenges of introducting serious games and virtual worlds in educational curriculum / C. Ribeiro ... [et al.]
• Serious games for reflective learning: experiences from the MIRROR Project / L. Pannese ... [et al.]
• Evaluating games in classrooms: a case study with DOGeometry / Günter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Johannes Biba
• Learning with the support of a digital game in the introduction to finance class: analysis of the students' perception of the game's ease of use and usefulness / M. Romero, M. Usart
• Racing academy: a case study of a digital game for supporting students learning of physics and engineering / Richard Joiner ... [et al.].