9/1/19-8/31/22 PIs: Magy Seif El-Nasr, Northeastern University (Award Details) Jichen Zhu, Drexel University (Award Details) An active research area in intelligent tutoring systems and game-based learning is personalized learning. In […]
Tag Archives: Games and game making
Workshop for Building a Network for Early Career Scholars of Games and Learning
9/1/16-12/31/17 PIs: Owen Gottlieb, Crystle Martin Rochester Institute of Tech Award Details The field of Games and Learning is relatively new and of rapidly growing in impact and importance. The […]
RAPID: Collaborative Research: Learning about Infectious Diseases through Online Participation in a Virtual Epidemic
9/1/15-8/31/17 PIs: Yasmin Kafai, Jennifer Sun, University of Pennsylvania (Award Details) Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University (Award Details) Epidemics (whether measles, ebola, or the flu) affect youth, but many of the […]
DIP: Game-based Assessment and Support of STEM-related Competencies
PIs: Valerie Shute, Russell Almond, Fengfeng Ke Florida State University Award Details Well-designed educational games represent a promising technology for increasing students interest in and learning of STEM topics such […]
Towards Virtual Worlds that Afford Knowledge Integration Across Project Challenges and Disciplines
PIs: Janet Kolodner, Amy Pallant Concord Consortium Award Details Many efforts have been made to use virtual worlds to teach science concepts that are either inaccessible or impractical in the […]
DIP: Data Science Games – Student Immersion in Data Science Using Games for Learning in the Common Online Data Analysis Platform
PIs: William Finzer, Timothy Erickson, Frieda Reichsman, Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde Concord Consortium Award Details This project refines and studies technology for ‘data science games’: essentially, a game is embedded in a […]
EXP: Learning Parallel Programming Concepts Through an Adaptive Game
PIs: Santiago Ontanon, Brian Smith, Jichen Zhu, Bruce Char Drexel University Award Details This project will develop educational games that adapt to the skill level of the user and will […]
EXP: Teaching Bias Mitigation through Training Games with Application in Credibility Attribution
PI: Norah Dunbar University of California-Santa Barbara Award Details This project will develop and study an interactive game entitled VERITAS for making players aware of their cognitive bias in decision […]
DIP: Potential for everyday learning in a virtual community: A design-based investigation
PIs: Janis Dickinson, Rhiannon Crain Cornell University Award Details This project team aims to explore how to foster learning in socially-networked communities, particularly learning that results in behavior change. Understanding […]
CAP: Towards Inclusive Design of Serious Games for Learning
PIs: Yasmin Kafai, Brendesha Tynes, Gabriela Richard University of Pennsylvania Award Details Serious games and games for learning are designed to foster learning or engagement with real-world events or processes […]