Minecraft Education Edition’s Ability to Create an Effective and Engaging Learning Experience

Panja, Vennela; Berge, Jill

doi:10.47611/jsrhs.v10i2.1697

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“…In this context, our proposal will provide tools to easily create virtual scenarios to connect students to STEM learning and also increase their interest and motivation [62]. Virtual scenarios will be presented in the context of a game, and gamification will be used to exploit their benefits [63,64].…”

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TAECon, a web-based platform to promote STEM

Boada

Rodrı́guez²,

Llenas³

et al. 2022

IJSG

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In this paper, we present TAECon, a web-based platform designed to support STEM promotion sessions carried out by the Polytechnic School of Girona's University at higher schools. The platform combines gamification, serious games, content editors, and automatic correction strategies in a single framework. TAECon is used to prepare game sessions that turn around a central story with eight main characters from different ethnicities and genders that have to recover their identification cards. Players working in groups or individually and in face-to-face or virtual sessions have specific editors to design and enter solutions of challenges (or problems) and enigmas (or subproblems) created by STEM experts using the content editors of the platform. According to the type of enigma correction techniques automatically evaluate responses and assign the corresponding reward. The platform has been used by more than a thousand students from fifty secondary schools. To collect the platform impressions more than 250 students answered a questionnaire and 17 secondary school teachers were interviewed. As reported by the information collected, the platform was appreciated by both students and teachers. Users enjoyed the challenges and the game sessions. To conclude, TAECon can be considered a good strategy to promote STEM.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

TAECon, a web-based platform to promote STEM

Boada

Rodrı́guez²,

Llenas³

et al. 2022

IJSG

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“…In the recent work (Panja and Berge, 2021) factors that should be considered when creating a game-based educational model are discussed. It has been indicated that not all students/players engage with Minecraft in the same way, and that prior game experience influences how the student learns (acquires knowledge), which affects the results.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The game is used, among others, to learn science and technology. Initial research into the suitability of Minecraft for learning chemistry is described in (Panja and Berge, 2021). The factors that should be considered when building a Minecraft-based learning model are discussed.…”

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Help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft

Grobelna¹,

Mazurkiewicz²,

Janus³

2022

Informatics in Education

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Background: Petri nets are a formal specification technique for modelling of control processes and modern flexible manufacturing systems. Interpreted Petri nets take into account input and output signals, allowing to apply them in any control system or even in control part of a cyber-physical system. Due to the fact that Petri nets are not used in the industrial practice, the students sometimes lack motivation to learn them. Contributions: In the paper we propose how to help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft (as a game-based learning). We show how interpreted Petri nets can be modelled in Minecraft and how they communicate with the surrounding environment via input and output signals to visualize control processes. The proposed approach has been validated experimentally among university students. Hypotheses: (1) Creating interpreted Petri net models with Minecraft helps to understand the basic principles; (2) Minecraft makes the course more attractive. Methodology: Students were divided into an experimental group (with game-based learning) and a control group (with traditional learning). The experimental group filled in a knowledge test twice (on the entry and on the exit) and a questionnaire. The control group filled in the same knowledge test at the end of the course. Findings: The observations confirm that the Minecraft-based teaching of interpreted Petri nets allows to gain better results in final tests, making at the same time the course more attractive and enjoyable.

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An evaluation of game-based computer science course designs: The example of minecraftedu

Tonbuloğlu

2023

Educ Inf Technol

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Minecraft Education Edition’s Ability to Create an Effective and Engaging Learning Experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

TAECon, a web-based platform to promote STEM

TAECon, a web-based platform to promote STEM

Help students learn interpreted Petri nets with Minecraft

An evaluation of game-based computer science course designs: The example of minecraftedu

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