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A Comparison of Methodological Frameworks for Digital Learning Game Design

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Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2015)

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Methodological frameworks guide the design of digital learning game based on well founded learning theories and instructional strategies. This study presents a comparison of five methodological frameworks for digital learning game design, highlighting their similarities and differences. The objective is to support the choice of an adequate framework, aiming to promote them as a way to foster principled digital learning games design. This paper concludes that: (i) interactivity, engagement and increasing complexity of challenges are fundamental factors to digital learning game design; (ii) the pedagogical base, the target, the possibility of doing game assessment and the presence of practical guidelines are the selection criteria that influence most the choice of a methodological framework, and (iii) the development of digital learning games - preferably by different research teams - is needed to provide empirical evidence of the utility of framework-based design.

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  1. Universidade Federal do Ceara, Instituto Universidade Virtual, Av. Humberto Monte, s/n, bloco 901, Fortaleza, 60440-554, Brazil

    Alysson Diniz dos Santos

  2. DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Piero Fraternali

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dos Santos, A.D., Fraternali, P. (2016). A Comparison of Methodological Frameworks for Digital Learning Game Design. In: De Gloria, A., Veltkamp, R. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9599. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_12

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