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Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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This chapter discusses educational aspects and possibilities of serious games. For researchers as well as game designers we describe key learning theories to ground their work in theoretical framework. We draw on recent meta-reviews to offer an exhaustive inventory of known learning and affective outcomes in serious games, and to discuss assessment methods valuable not only for research but also for efficient serious game design. The implementation and design of serious games are outlined in separated sections. Different individual characteristics that seem to be strongly affecting process of learning with serious games (learning style, gender and age) are discussed with emphasis on game development.

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  1. Institute of Information Science and Librarianship, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Michaela Slussareff

  2. School of Communication, Media and IT, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Eelco Braad

  3. Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Philip Wilkinson

  4. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age by Kurt Squire (Teachers College Press, 2011)

  • Games, Learning, and Society: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives by Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

  • Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames by Ian Bogost (The MIT Press, 2010)

  • Values at Play in Digital Games by Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum (The MIT Press, 2014)

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Slussareff, M., Braad, E., Wilkinson, P., Strååt, B. (2016). Games for Learning. In: Dörner, R., Göbel, S., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Masuch, M., Zweig, K. (eds) Entertainment Computing and Serious Games. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_9

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