TDG – Student-Centered Learning Facilitated by Cooperative Simulation Games on Wireless Mobile Devices

Abstract

In this teaching development project, we aim to achieve the following project objectives:

• to carefully design, implement and test a pilot simulation game based on the domain of Information Technology as a prototype to actualize and realize the possible advantages of digital-game based learning (DGBL) in tertiary education of the Engineering discipline in general;
• to carefully evaluate the benefits/shortcomings of our above homegrown simulation games through questionnaires and interviews with students within the Department of EEE and possibly later extended to the whole Faculty when sufficient resource is secured, or suitable funding opportunities arise.

After an initial prototype system was built on both the desktop and pocket PC environments, a preliminary evaluation was conducted. With a detailed analysis, our work was published and presented in the following 2 international conferences about the uses of IT in Education, for which local/overseas educators/researchers have expressed strong interests in the system design of our TDG game as well as its potential applications and evaluation results. Later, our work was also invited for publications as book chapters.

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