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Leveraging the Affordances of an Electronic Game to Meet Instructional Goals

Leveraging the Affordances of an Electronic Game to Meet Instructional Goals

Yuxin Ma, Douglas Williams, Charles Richard, Louise Prejean
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781599048086|ISBN10: 1599048086|EISBN13: 9781599048116
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-808-6.ch065
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Ma, Yuxin, et al. "Leveraging the Affordances of an Electronic Game to Meet Instructional Goals." Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, edited by Richard E. Ferdig, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1127-1142. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-808-6.ch065

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Ma, Y., Williams, D., Richard, C., & Prejean, L. (2009). Leveraging the Affordances of an Electronic Game to Meet Instructional Goals. In R. Ferdig (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education (pp. 1127-1142). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-808-6.ch065

Chicago

Ma, Yuxin, et al. "Leveraging the Affordances of an Electronic Game to Meet Instructional Goals." In Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, edited by Richard E. Ferdig, 1127-1142. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-808-6.ch065

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Abstract

Electronic games have the potential to support learning by doing and enhance student motivation. However, there is little guidance in the literature on how to leverage the affordances of electronic games to design effective instruction. This chapter is our effort to start to accumulate knowledge to guide the design of electronic educational games. We present a case study describing how the unique components of electronic games enabled the design of Conquest of Coastlands, a learning environment delivered as an electronic game. We describe how our team synthesized two sets of design principles from the literature on electronic games, instructional design, and intrinsic motivation and how these principles informed the design of Conquest of Coastlands. The principles and the related case study may inform the design of future electronic educational games and generate research questions to be investigated in empirical research.

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