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Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education

Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education

Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Jayshiro Tashiro, Bill Kapralos, Miguel Vargas Martin
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 38
ISBN13: 9781609601959|ISBN10: 1609601955|EISBN13: 9781609601966
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch704
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Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel A., et al. "Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education." Gaming and Simulations: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 1712-1749. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch704

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Garcia-Ruiz, M. A., Tashiro, J., Kapralos, B., & Martin, M. V. (2011). Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Gaming and Simulations: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 1712-1749). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch704

Chicago

Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel A., et al. "Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education." In Gaming and Simulations: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1712-1749. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch704

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors examine different types of serious games for healthcare education and pose some hard questions about what they know and do not know about their effectiveness. As part of our analysis, the authors explore general aspects of the use of educational simulations as teaching-learning-assessment tools, but try to tease out how to study the potential such tools might have for leading students toward developing misconceptions. Being powerful instruments with the potential of enhancing healthcare education in extraordinary ways, serious games and simulations have the possibility of improving students’ learning and skills outcomes.Their contribution is an overview of current education technologies related to serious games and simulations with a perspective of potential development of misconceptions in the healthcare education community, with a special focus on millennial students. In addition, the authors provide insight on evidence-based learning and give a perspective of future trends.

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