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Design Principles for Game-Based Assessment
April 10, 2018 @ 12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
Description: Even though digital learning games have become common in education, relatively little attention has been paid to game-based assessment. Nevertheless, it has been argued that learning analytics could speed up the adoption of game-based learning by enhancing both summative and formative assessment practices. This talk will consider, how game-based learning analytics can facilitate teaching and learning in informal as well as in blended learning environments. The talk will go over the design challenges that our team faced when implementing learning analytics to mathematics games. The results of several studies will shed light on characteristics of game-based assessment. The topics of discussion will include cognitive and affective outcomes of game-based assessment, fairness of game-based learning, validity of game analytics, and implementation of learning dashboards for teachers.
What are the benefits?
Attendees will gain a mindset for designing game-based learning solutions that include learning analytics. They will leave this talk with a better understanding of characteristics that can affect the usefulness of game-based assessment.
Topics covered include:
Game-based learning, game-based assessment, test anxiety, flow experience, learning analytics, math games, game design principles
Who should attend?
This talk is intended for anyone who is interested in game-based learning.
Ph.D. Kristian Kiili works currently as an Academy Research Fellow and an Adjunct Professor (User Centered Design) at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). He heads TUT Game Lab research laboratory that focuses on game-based learning research. Kiili has headed several educational technology and game research projects and published over 90 international peer-reviewed papers. His research focus on various game-based learning areas and user experience. The results received from his studies have been applied also in award-winning commercial products. He has been a visiting scholar in Stanford University in 2009, 2013, and 2014-2015.
Please register your place at: https://professionaldevelopment.coventry.ac.uk/