Mariluz Guenaga, Andoni Eguíluz, Alex Rayon, Asier Núñez, Elena Quevedo. XVI Simposio Internacional de Informática Educativa, SIIE 2014

1. A serious game to develop
and assess teamwork
competency
Mariluz Guenaga, Andoni Eguíluz, Alex Rayón,
Asier Núñez, Elena Quevedo

2. Competency
-based
learning
Teamwork
competency
Game-based
learning
Let’s Team!

3. Competency-based learning
Competenc
y
• 21st century competencies
• Soft skills
• Non-routine and cognitive
UDLM
• Generic competencies
• Map of competencies
• Specific competencies
Coaching
• In-company training
• Abstract skills

4. Teamwork
Why?
How?
Who?
What?

5. Game-based learning
Why?
How?
Who?
What?
Why
not?

6. Let’s team!!
 Serious game
 Adventure
 To develop and
assess teamwork competency
◦ Use Learning Analytics
 Combines physical and virtual
worlds

7. Some activities
• My relation with the rest
• What I think about myself
• How I feel
Diagnosys
• Label a conversation (in/out the game)
• Label email conversation
• Label a video about a meeting
Listening
• Elements for an effective meeting
• Feelings after a meeting Meetings

8. Activity: the work cycle
Petición
Negociación
Evaluación
Finalización Ejecución
Notificació
n
Reclamo
Queja
Disculpa

9. The work cycle in the game
 Characters in an island have to
construct a civilization
 Limited number of resources
◦ Food, wood, stones, coins and time
 Productive elements
◦ Tree (food), sawmill (wood), quarry
(stone)
 Structures
◦ Houses, town hall, road, fountain…

10. Game spaces
 Town – space for each player
◦ Only affected by players’ actions
◦ Visible for the rest
◦ One can ask/offer resources
 Shared space
◦ Affected by all players
◦ Shared resources
◦ Colaborative buildings

11. Challenges
 Get a minimum number of resources
 Built some elements
 Share challenges
◦ Meetings with other players
◦ Distribute challenges
◦ Balance between individual and collective
challenges
 With limited time
 Open/close conversational interaction

12. Actions to get the challenges
• Claim or
apologize to solve
or improve a
situation
• Virtual meeting to
decide something
• Before-during-after
• Anyone, anytime
can complain
• Identify problems
in conversations
where there are
agreements
Conversational
Commitment
Useless
complaints
Productive
claim
Unique
approach

13. Assessment
 To support trainer’s evaluation
 Learning Analytics
 What is measured:
◦ Individual and collective objective results
◦ Actions carried out to get the challenges
◦ The progression of individual and group
feelings and relations during the whole
game
◦ Improvement in confidence

14. Conclusions and future work
Develop
Pilot
Analyze
Refine
Games
Competencies
Learning Analytics

15. Thank you! Questions?
Comments?
Mariluz Guenaga, Andoni Eguíluz, Alex Rayón,
Asier Núñez, Elena Quevedo