Enhancing Adaptive Learning and Assessment in Virtual Learning Environments with Educational Games

Abstract

The rising acceptance of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) in the e-Learning field poses new challenges such as producing student-centered courses that can be automatically tailored to each student's needs. For this purpose digital games can be used, taking advantage of their flexibility (good video games always try to adapt to different players) and capabilities to stealthily track players' activity, either for producing an accurate user model or enhancing the overall assessment capabilities of the system. In this chapter, the authors discuss the integration of digital games in Virtual Learning Environments and the need of standards that allow the interoperable communication of games and VLE. Authors also present a middle-ware architecture to integrate video games in VLEs that addresses the technical barriers posed by the integration. The chapter presents a case study with the implementation of the architecture in the “e-Adventure” game authoring platform, along with three examples of video game integration in educational settings.

Adaptive learning: a cluster-based literature review (2011-2022)

“…3 papers and 1 Ph.D. thesis are related to adaptive learning gamification: Durieu, Solal and Tercieux [45] discusses a study on perturbed joint and independent fictitious play processes in n-person games and how they relate to the selection of strategies in the long run, Del Blanco et al [41] discussed the integration of digital games in virtual learning environments, using a middleware architecture to integrate video games in VLEs, and Johnson and Zaiane [83] proposes an online Intelligent Tutoring System gamified to teach medical imaging. Ghaban [61] proposes a model of adapting the gamification elements, that can predict the best combination of gamification elements for a learner's personality profile.…”

LUDOS: uma Infraestrutura para Gamificação em Ecossistemas de E-learning

“…Embora existam trabalhos incorporando gamificação à AVAs [Del Blanco et al 2011][Kiryakovam et al 2014, que podem ser plataformas a partir da qual Ecossistemas de E-learning se estabelecem, não se identificou na literatura, até o momento, o estudo de gamificação em e-learning sob a perspectiva de Ecossistemas de E-learning. LUDOS não propõe um novo Ecossistema de E-learning, mas uma infraestrutura para integrar conteúdo educacional, serviços e aplicações com gamificação a ecossistemas existentes através de padrões de distribuição de conteúdo educacional.…”

“…O uso de ambientes e-learning é uma realidade, e seu crescimento é evidenciado pelo número de cursos a distância oferecidos no ensino superior [Sridharan et al 2010] [Docebo 2014]. Hoje esses ambientes de e-learning não são apenas repositórios de conteúdo, mas ambientes virtuais completos para ensino e aprendizagem [Del Blanco et al 2011]. O uso de tecnologias para integrar diferentes ferramentas educacionais, a grande diversidade de atores e novos modelos de interação têm reforçado a perspectiva de Ecossistemas de E-learning, que considera em uma comunidade de ensinoaprendizagem à distância: conteúdo, princípios e métodos, sistemas e processos, além de recursos de gerenciamento de aprendizagem [Sridharan et al 2010].…”

Assessing Foreign Language Learning Through Mobile Game-Based Learning Environments

“…With this increasing rise of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in people's daily lives many educational institutions have started integrating ICTs in their course syllabus. This is illustrated, amongst others by the growing use of different kinds of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) (Del Blanco et al, 2011) providing teachers and learners with new opportunities as well as challenges. Whilst teachers get the opportunity to more easily manage and administer course contents and learning resources, these become much more accessible for students, since they are no longer restricted to factors such as time and place.…”