State Senior Games Participant Motivation

Participant Motivation in Off-Campus Agricultural Credit Programs

There are many things that indicate agriculture has changed rapidly in the last ten years. Change occws SO fast that agriculture could overnight become something different from what it is today (Downey, 1986). Of the many changes agriculture experienced in the 1980s, some changes have been detrimental while others have been quite positive. One positive change is the greater opportunity for adul...

Storytelling and Motivation In Serious Games

.................................................. 3 Introduction .............................................. 3 Motivation and Learning ................................ 5 Storytelling and Motivation ............................ 7 Basics of Storytelling in Computer Games ................................... 11 Parasocial Design and Interactive Storytelling in Computer Games ...... 14 Rewards a...

Motivation, Engagement and Learning through Digital Games

Digital games can be powerful learning environments because they encourage active learning and participation within “affinity groups” (Gee, 2004). However, the use of games in formal educational environments is not always successful (O’Neil et al., 2005). There is a need to update existing theories of motivation and engagement in order to take recent game-related developments into account. Unde...

Digital games: motivation, engagement and informal learning

Motivation in Games: A Literature Review

This paper explains why and how video games can motivate students to learn. It explains key concepts linked to motivation, engagement and flow, and illustrates how some features in video games can promote intrinsic motivation, hence encourage and sustain learning. In the second part of the paper, empirical evidence of the motivational aspects of video games is presented, with reference to recen...