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    How can exploratory learning with games and simulations within the curriculum be most effectively evaluated?

    de Freitas, Sara and Oliver, M. (2006) How can exploratory learning with games and simulations within the curriculum be most effectively evaluated? Computers and Education 46 (3), pp. 249-264. ISSN 0360-1315.

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    Abstract

    There have been few attempts to introduce frameworks that can help support tutors evaluate educational games and simulations that can be most effective in their particular learning context and subject area. The lack of a dedicated framework has produced a significant impediment for uptake of games and simulations particularly in formal learning contexts. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by introducing a four-dimensional framework for helping tutors to evaluate the potential of using games- and simulation- based learning in their practice, and to support more critical approaches to this form of games and simulations. The four-dimensional framework is applied to two examples from practice to test its efficacy and structure critical reflection upon practice.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: Author Note: 'this paper was presented at the Computer Assisted Learning conference 2005, Bristol, UK on 5th April 2005'.
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): authoring tools and methods, elementary education, evaluation of CAL systems, interactive learning environments, pedagogical issues, simulations
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Sandra Plummer
    Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2006
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:29
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/404

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