Game Design Tactics for Teaching Technical Communication in Online Courses

Abstract

This article describes an interdisciplinary, partially online honors course entitled Video Game Theory and Design. The article reviews the literature surrounding video games and technical communication and then outlines the learning objectives for the course. The authors describe individual and team-produced assignments and suggest game design techniques for motivating students. We explain how we assess different projects, including oral game pitches and the complex technical Game Design Documents that are students’ final deliverables. Finally, we discuss how game design techniques provide new perspectives on writing and generate new possibilities for technical communication assignments. We close by proposing three tactics that are useful for teaching technical communication students in hybrid and fully online courses: (a) nonlinear association for creative thinking; (b) team-based assignments for writing and editing using game-based tools; and (c) iterative prototyping and playtesting for multimodal production. Each tactic is contextualized using examples drawn from the field.

Research on the Application of Apriori Algorithm in the Teaching of Ball Sports Techniques and Tactics

“…When the confidence level of the item set is greater than or equal to the minimum confidence level, the association rule obtained is a strong association rule [18]. Association rules can include numerical, unidimensional, and single-layer depending on the problem situation, and the Apriori algorithm is the most widely used among numerical rules [19]. The Apriori algorithm is implemented as an iterative algorithm with layer-by-layer search to react to the correlation between transactions, and the implementation flow of this algorithm is shown in Figure 3.1.…”