Mobile serious games: Effects on students’ understanding of programming concepts and attitudes towards information technology

Yallihep, Mirac; Kutlu, Birgül

doi:10.1007/s10639-019-10008-2

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“…[7], they can engage players in the experience, stimulate and retain their interest in learning and encourage perseverance in completing tasks [16,25]. Serious games are used in various fields such as cultural heritage, education, healthcare [27] and are preferred by students more than traditional methods [28]. They are considered that can be effective tools [17] for learning and training [17,18] but are less attractive to young generations than Action and Adventure Games [17].…”

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“…Serious Games mostly focus on educational outcome and less on entertainment and their transformation to Action and Adventure Games is proposed as a challenge [17]. Yallihep and Kutlu [28] concluded that mobile serious games can effectively enhance students' achievements, whereas further studies are required to investigate the role of mobile serious games as educational tools [28].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

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Escape Rooms are presently considered a very popular social entertainment activity, with increasing popularity in education field, since they are considered capable of stimulating the interest of players/students and enhancing learning. The combined game mechanics have led to blended forms of Escape Rooms, the Serious Escape Games (SEGs) and the hybrid type of Escape Rooms that uses Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality technology, a type that is expected to be widely used in the future. In the current study, the MillSecret is presented, a multi-player Serious Escape Game about local cultural heritage, where the players must solve a riddle about the cultural asset of watermills. MillSecret uses AR technology and it was designed to be conducted in the real-physical environment and in an informal educational context. The paper describes the game, its implementation, the playing process, and its evaluation, which aimed to study the feasibility of game conduction in outdoor settings and the views and experience of players with the game, the local cultural heritage and local history. Evaluation results reveal, among other findings, a very positive first feedback from players that allows us to further evolve the development of the game.

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Section: Serious Gamesmentioning

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Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

2020

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“…Although some studies have attempted to gauge the attitude of students towards the use of mobile learning (Alsaggaf et al, 2012;Halim and Phon, 2020;Yallihep and Kutlu, 2020), there is a dearth of research related to investigating the cultural implications of using mobile learning in the context of computer programming education among female students in Saudi Arabia (Alfarani, 2016).…”

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Attitudes of Saudi female students toward the use of mobile devices in learning computer programming: An empirical study

Alanazi¹,

Li²,

Soh³

2023

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes of Saudi Arabian female students toward mobile learning approaches pertaining to their learning experiences. Our methodology involved two groups–one that was subjected to a traditional teaching approach and the other (treatment group) that was subjected to a teaching approach with an intervention involving the ViLLE visualization tool during a semester in a programming class. We employed the Mobile Learning for Computer Programming framework to evaluate the perception of the use of mobile devices pertaining to the learning experience of female programming students in Saudi Arabia. Overall, the treatment group had positive attitudes toward mobile-based learning. This approach can promote engagement in learning systems, enhance the learning experience, improve the quality of learning, and help explain learner behavior.

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“…These impacts are researched in various academic domains yet along mostly a reductionist viewpoint. There are many examples of research on the effects of ICT, for example, regarding education we cite, [1], [2], and [3] . Study [1] points to the increasing need for reliable translation services to accommodate the increase in networking among people of different languages and cultures.…”

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“…To quantify the study, they use questionnaires collecting opinions from 540 undergraduate students from three disciplines. In study [3], they measure the impacts of games on mobile devices on fifth-grade students' attitudes towards an "Information Technology and Software" course and on their understanding of programming concepts. The comparison of pre-test and post-test results for two separate test groups, they see an improvement in understanding, yet no change in attitude with the introduction of these so-called "mobile serious games".…”

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A meta-study on future work in information and communication technologies

Oruç

Yeralan

2020

Heritage and Sustainable Development

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Not only have Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) advanced in rapid succession, but society has embraced these developments and implemented them in daily life. This adoption has not only affected our way of conducting routine activities, but also significantly modified the way we do things as well as the things we now do. At this junction, rather than how engineering should improve ICT, the appropriate question seems to be “what should ICT engineers focus on? This question involves not only the prediction of future trends, but core engineering ethics, since any new ICT development is likely to affect societal activity. We present a recent study where we developed an approach to predict future trends and use it to guide our research plans. In that sense, the current study is a meta study, that is, a study to reveal what and how we should conduct future studies.

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Mobile serious games: Effects on students’ understanding of programming concepts and attitudes towards information technology

Cited by 25 publications

References 45 publications

Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

Attitudes of Saudi female students toward the use of mobile devices in learning computer programming: An empirical study

A meta-study on future work in information and communication technologies

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