CNIE 2008: A methodology for analyzing learning design in commercial digital games.

1. Instructional Ethology Serious Design of Educational Games Katrin Becker, PhD

3. Good Instruction

4. Good Games?

5. One way to do this is....

6. Studying the Masters

7. Why are these such good teachers? Amos’n’Andy The West Wing

8. Who are the “good teachers” in games?

9. Are there game masterpieces?

10. How can we learn from COTS games?

11. My Solution........

13. Players must learn and indeed do learn new things while playing the game;

15. Successful games are successful at least partially because they facilitate that learning

16. Successful Games Facilitate Learning

17. It is possible to examine learning in a digital game without associating what is learned with value-laden education al aims.

19. If games teach, how do they do it? And......

20. How do we study “instructional design” in COTS games?

21. Black Box Reverse Engineering Byrne, E. J. (1992). A Conceptual Foundation for Software Re-engineering . Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Orlando, FL, USA, 9-12 Nov 1992, p. 326-335.

22. Ethology

24. Instructional Ethology

25. Sample Analysis

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