Understanding Esports as a STEM Career Ready Curriculum in the Wild

Anderson, Craig G.; Tsaasan, A. M.; Reitman, Jason; Lee, Je Seok; Wu, Max C.; Steel, H.; Turner, Tom; Steinkuehler, Constance

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2018.8493445

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“…A survey revealed that players think video games not only train their social (i.e., negotiation) and motor spatial skills, but also their cognitive skills including problem solving and strategy development (Turkay & Adinolf, 2012). These findings have been supported by researchers in esports who describe how players and fans often approach games such as League of Legends in a data-driven and statistical way (Anderson et al, 2018).…”

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Assessing esport candidacy for critical thinking education

Post¹,

Birt²

2020

ASCILITE’s First Virtual Conference. Proceedings ASCILITE 2020 in Armidale

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Critical thinking in education is mainstream with ever increasing industry support for soft skills and capacity for graduates to solve problems, plan strategy, make decisions and communicate creatively. However, teaching and assessing critical thinking is resource intensive especially when scaling to large remote or online classes. Often, the solutions are bespoke, custom outcomes for a single classroom that are expensive to scale. Commercial computer games and esports may offer a solution. In this paper we aim to define critical thinking in education and how this relates to skills in esports, including decision making, problem solving, making a game plan, developing strategy and communication. To achieve this, we propose a conceptual framework to assess effectiveness of esports in teaching critical thinking using an adapted digital game-based learning framework and the learning goals of critical thinking. We support the framework with an esport case example of Rocket League with a lesson plan.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Assessing esport candidacy for critical thinking education

Post¹,

Birt²

2020

ASCILITE’s First Virtual Conference. Proceedings ASCILITE 2020 in Armidale

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“…On the other hand, in the literature review, various researches were found in sports and educational sciences, especially on sportsman career planning and management (Sandstedt et al, 2004;Lavallee, 2006;Tyrance, Harris & Post, 2013;Kocadağ, 2017;Ribeiro & Rima, 2019, Wendling et al, 2020. From this point of view, studies investigating career planning and future expectations of esports athletes are very few (Taylor, 2012;Seo, 2016;Salo, 2017;Anderson et al, 2018;Johnson & Woodstock, 2019). Reitman et al (2020) conducted a systematic literature review for esports research worldwide.…”

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Impact of Future Expectations on Career Planning Attitudes' of Professional Esports Athletes

Bingöl¹,

Çakir²

2021

Yönetim Bilimleri Dergisi

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Esports athletes are undoubtedly the most critical element of the esports sector, which embodies a growing economy all over the world. In the literature, there are yet no researches on the professional expectations and career prospects of those who build their career on professional esports athlete. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of future expectations of professional esports players in Turkey on their career planning behaviors with factors career adaptability, career optimism, and Perceived knowledge of the job market. The data collected by the survey method were analyzed with computer-aided statistics and Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) software. According to the results, there is a positive and meaningful relationship in the same direction with the future expectations of Turkish professional esport athletes and their career futures and planning attitudes. The future expectations of esport athletes positively affect their career compatibility and career optimism moderately, their perceptions towards the esports Job market weakly. In this sense, the sample group has a perception of a career future suitable for the esports ecosystem for a sustainable esports career.

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“…Instead, NASEF purposely highlighted a "club" structure. Preliminary research (Anderson, et al, 2018) on the professional and collegiate esports scene revealed a more diverse and complex ecosystem than just competing teams. Figure 2 illustrates the five role categories that comprise the esports community.…”

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Designing an Interest-Based Integrated Curriculum Around Esports

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A crisis of literacy has emerged among high school students in the United States. In order to encourage students’ engagement with literacy education, there is a need for an integrated curriculum of English Language Arts (ELA). An integrated language arts curriculum would allow students to learn literacy and reading skills while engaging with a motivating context. Meanwhile, esports has grown as a worldwide culture, expanding to more than just players and spectators to include a whole ecosystem of stakeholders. As esports grow in popularity and acceptance, educators have looked to connect the skills developed in esports with academic and career opportunities. We found esports to be a viable content area for the integrated curriculum because esports is favored among many students and involves reading activity as an essential part of participation.

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Understanding Esports as a STEM Career Ready Curriculum in the Wild

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Assessing esport candidacy for critical thinking education

Assessing esport candidacy for critical thinking education

Impact of Future Expectations on Career Planning Attitudes' of Professional Esports Athletes

Designing an Interest-Based Integrated Curriculum Around Esports

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