Edu-simulation: A serious games platform designed to engage and motivate students

Economou, Daphne; Doumanis, Ioannis; Bouki, Vassiliki; Pedersen, Frands; Mentzelopoulos, Markos; Georgalas, Nektarios

doi:10.1109/imctl.2015.7359596

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“…Both gamified educational tasks immerse users in a virtual environment (VE) reassembling the European Parliament in Brussels where they had to participate in an online debate. Participants completed the educational activities once using the immersive virtual Parliament and another using a non-immersive control (an educational Web platform called Edu-Simulation (Economou et al, 2015)). The virtual Parliament (VP) was built using the REVERIE (Real and Virtual Engagement In Realistic Immersive Environments) (Fechteler et al, 2013) framework.…”

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The impact of multimodal collaborative virtual environments on learning: A gamified online debate

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Computers & Education

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Online learning platforms are integrated systems designed to provide students and teachers with information, tools and resources to facilitate and enhance the delivery and management of learning. In recent years platform designers have introduced gamification and multimodal interaction as ways to make online courses more engaging and immersive. Current web-based platforms provide a limited degree of immersion in learning experiences that diminish learning impact. To improve immersion, it is necessary to stimulate some or all of human senses by engaging users in an environment that perceptually surrounds them and allows intuitive and rich interaction with other users and its content. Learning in these collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) can be aided by increasing motivation and engagement through gamification of the educational task. This rich interaction that combines multimodal stimulation and gamification of the learning experience has the potential to draw students into the learning experience and improve learning outcomes. This paper presents the results of an experimental study designed to evaluate the impact of multimodal real-time interaction on user experience and learning of gamified educational tasks completed in a CVE. Secondary school teachers and students between ages 11 and 18 participated in the study. The multimodal CVE is an accurate reconstruction of the European Parliament in Brussels, developed using the REVERIE (Real and Virtual Engagement In Realistic Immersive Environment) framework. In the study, we compared the impact of the VR Parliament to a non-multimodal control (an educational platform called Edu-Simulation) for the same educational tasks. Our experiment results show that the multimodal CVE improves student learning performance and aspects of subjective experience when compared to the non-multimodal control. More specifically it resulted in a more positive effect on the ability of the students to generate ideas compared to a non-multimodal control. It also facilitated some sense of presence for students in the VE in the form of emotional immersion. The paper concludes with a discussion of future work that focusses on combining the best features of both systems in a hybrid system to increase its educational impact and evaluate the prototype in real-world educational scenarios.

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The impact of multimodal collaborative virtual environments on learning: A gamified online debate

Doumanis

Economou

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et al. 2019

Computers & Education

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“…To test this hypothesis, we developed research instruments that allowed conducting an experiment to compare the spatial knowledge acquired by users completing educational tasks in a multimodal CVE (namely Virtual Gallery) versus a multimedia web platform (namely Edu-Simulation [10]) (see section III). In the web platform users had to complete educational tasks using a panoramic photorealistic representation of a real-world gallery.…”

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