Collaborative Learning by means of Multiplayer Serious Games
Key: WHGS10-2
Author: Viktor Wendel, Felix Hertin, Stefan Göbel, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: December 2010
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: Springer
Book title: Proceedings of ICWL 2010
Keywords: Serious Games, Digital Educational Games, Collaborative Learning, Multiplayer Games
Abstract: The field of collaborative learning has been researched for many years with a focus on evaluation of the circumstances under which collaborative learning provides better learning e ffectiveness compared to individual learning. Traditional collaborative learning has been taking place as group work or discussions in a class. Recently, Serious Games for learning and Digital Educational Games (DEGs) have been established as a promising alternative to the traditional one-to-many teaching as it is still standard in today's classrooms and with the uprising technology of Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs), new ways of collaborative learning are possible. In this paper we examine various chances and challenges for collaborative learning which arise by the use of Multiplayer Serious Games. Section 1 motivates this work, followed by a description of some important aspects of MOGs and collaboration in Section 2. In Section 3 the concept of collaborative learning is explained and important concepts and methods for a collaborative game design are analyzed and discussed in Section 4, using some examples of collaborative Serious Games. Finally, we briefly introduce our own approach of a collaborative Serious MOG in Section 5. In Section 6 the results are summarized and further work is pointed out.
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