Serious Gaming – Teaching Science Using Games

Teaching Portuguese using serious games

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems aim to teach a language providing technology and motivation to the user. They allow us to implement pedagogical content, motivational techniques and corrective feedback. On this basis, we present Medieval Adventure, which is a CALL system that aims to teach Portuguese’s basic levels to adults. Medieval Adventure teaches a second language mainly...

Teaching Science Using Digital Literacy and 3D Gaming

This in-progress research project seeks to develop models for educational games that will address, but will not be limited to, the issues of: 1) formulating design strategies that maintain the motivational elements of creativity, exploration, problem solving and being fun to play while at the same time satisfying curriculum objectives; 2) integrating science literacy and computational thinking;...

Serious Games for Solving Protein Sequence Alignments - Combining Citizen Science and Gaming

A fundamental task in computational biology is the identification of similarities between multiple protein sequences, to get insight into their functional, structural and evolutionary relationships. These similarities can be revealed by aligning the sequences. This alignment is a NP-hard problem. In this paper, we present an improved game approach to solving large protein sequence alignments wi...

Using games in Oncology Teaching

Introduction:Educational methods can be classified into two groups: active methods and passive ones. Applying games is an active approach in teaching. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of games on teaching oncology. Methods: Twenty three medical students participated in the study. They took two class sessions of oncology. In the first session the basic principles and concepts...

Serious Games: The Impact of Pervasive Gaming on Business