Title
A platform for the authoring of educational games
Date Issued
27 June 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
An Educational Game Authoring (EGA) tool is a software to assist teachers in the authoring of games. Game authoring can be approached from two different perspectives. The first, where the educator creates a game from scratch, and a second one, where specific game components of an existing game can be configured (edited) by the teacher, abstracting the technical aspects of game development for non-programmer users. Nevertheless, whatever the perspective, the authoring games in an easy way is still a challenge, and even more, there is a lack of works considering educational aspects like Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs), students' learning and playing styles, and learning mechanics. This work takes the second perspective and proposes an EGA platform that although embraces both the game and educational domains, puts the emphasis on the educational one. The platform provides educators with a mean for configuring educational games, and so adapt game's educational content to lessons pacing and students' learning needs. This platform is conceived generic enough to serve those educational games that are adapted to interact with it using a given protocol and communication language. In this paper, we present the architecture of the EGA platform, the communication protocol and the Authoring Description Language (ADL). We show the approach with an example of a maths game.
Start page
1
End page
6
Volume
2018-June
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049923577
ISBN
9789899843486
Source
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
Resource of which it is part
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
ISSN of the container
21660727
ISBN of the container
978-989984348-6
Conference
13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2018
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