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University orientation and transition strategies enjoy limited success, in part due to poor attendance, but largely due to the inability of these programs to communicate expectations in a meaningful way. The solution offered here is an educational game, not as an alternative to orientation, but as a complementary, self-directed orientation and transition experience. Choose your own Uni Adventure teaches the language and practices of university and allow players to draw inferences about university values and expectations in a way that will engender engagement and motivation. The aim of the project is to create a proof of concept for the game, the design of which is described here.
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Wainman, B. (2016). Choose Your Own Uni Adventure: An Orientation and Transition Game. In: Marsh, T., Ma, M., Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Göbel, S. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9894. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45841-0_24
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