Dealing with digital native students requires new methodologies of teaching. In this work, we describe an approach and a conceptual architecture of a supporting teaching tool that takes into account two main objectives in new teaching trends: Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs). The main idea is a VLE that in turn is a role playing game. The game structure follows a quest-based game that is deliberately designed as a system of problem-solving activities aimed at achieving objectives, to be successfully addressed in order to progress and eventually win. The emotional behavior of the IPAs has been built by conducting a study on emotions with high school students. Stemming from the study results, it has been built an Android application that uses the IPA as a standalone application to prove the efficacy of the IPA itself.

Game@School: Teaching STEM through mobile apps and role-based games / Terracina, A.; Mecella, M.. - In: BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 2306-0212. - 17:3(2015), pp. 6-9.

Game@School: Teaching STEM through mobile apps and role-based games

Terracina A.
;
Mecella M.
2015

Abstract

Dealing with digital native students requires new methodologies of teaching. In this work, we describe an approach and a conceptual architecture of a supporting teaching tool that takes into account two main objectives in new teaching trends: Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs). The main idea is a VLE that in turn is a role playing game. The game structure follows a quest-based game that is deliberately designed as a system of problem-solving activities aimed at achieving objectives, to be successfully addressed in order to progress and eventually win. The emotional behavior of the IPAs has been built by conducting a study on emotions with high school students. Stemming from the study results, it has been built an Android application that uses the IPA as a standalone application to prove the efficacy of the IPA itself.
2015
Intelligent Pedagogical Agent (IPA); Role-playing game; Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
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Game@School: Teaching STEM through mobile apps and role-based games / Terracina, A.; Mecella, M.. - In: BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 2306-0212. - 17:3(2015), pp. 6-9.
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