A Guide to Designing Curricular Games How to "Game" the System /

• Main Author: Jackson Kellinger, Janna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Game-Based Learning
• Subjects: Education.; Educational technology.; Educational Technology.; Learning & Instruction.

This book walks readers through the process of turning a class into a curricular game. This way teachers can co-opt the pedagogical techniques of video games such as immersion, just-in-time feedback, and leveling up instead of competing with them. This manual provides a step-by-step process that gui...

Table of Contents:

• Upping your Game: Transforming Teaching
• The Name Game: Developing a Theme
• The Game Behind the Game: Uncovering Systems
• Game Face: Telling the Story
• The Game Plan: Designing the Game
• Fair Game: Developing Quests
• Game Play: Rendering the Game
• Game on!: Teaching the Game
• Endgame: Scaling Up.