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1. Time and Serious Games 1 st GALA Alignment School, Edinburgh, 21/06/2011 Mireia Usart Tutoring: Margarida Romero Direction of Educational Innovation and Academic Quality (DIPQA), ESADE. Contact: mireia.usart@esade.edu

3. Time in Games

4. Some commercial games have time outs and clocks... 1. Time in Games

5. ...there are also Serious Games designed to improve time management... 1. Time in Games.

8. Time Perspective

9. Time Perspective (also called Time Orientation) definitions: 2. Time Perspective The degree to which one reflects upon the past, is centered in the present, or anticipates the future. ( Lennings, 2000 ) The manner in which individuals, and cultures, partition the flow of human experience into distinct temporal categories of past, present and future. ( Zimbardo et al. 1997 ) A complex construct of sub-factors, namely extension, structuralization, and realism that can be applied to both past and future perspectives. ( Nuttin, 1985 )

11. Time perspective and Learning

13. Aims, questions and hypotheses

15. 4. Aims, questions and hypotheses. We aim to study the relation between students' Temporal Perspective , students' performance and its relation with learning in GBL . 1. How does Time Perspective influence collaborative GBL processes? 2. Are students with similar TP better performing and showing better learning results?

16. Research Prospective Data will be collected in the context of Esade Management courses: 1. The ZTPI test for all students participating. 2. A collaborative Serious Game (eFinance Game). 4. Aim

17. Research Prospective 3. A time out or a clock: 4. Aim In Progress

19. References 4. References Peetsma, T. & van der Veer, I. (2011). Relations between the development of future time perspective in three life domains, investment in learning, and academic achievement. Learning and Instruction, 21, 3, 481-494. Phalet, K., Andriessen, I. & Lens, W. (2004). How Future Goals Enhance Motivation and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms. Educational Psychology Review, 16, 1, 59-89. Romero, M. (2011). Students' temporal perspectives, participation, temporal group awareness and grades. Are future oriented students performing better?. Presented at the FP7 IAPP Euro-CATCSCL Scientific Results’ workshop. Université de Toulouse, France. Wallace, M. (1956). Future time perspective in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 52, 2, 240-5. Zaleski, Z. (1994). Psychology of future orientation. Lublin [Poland: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL. Zimbardo, P. G. & Boyd, J. N. (1999). Putting time into perspective: A valid, reliable individual-differences metric. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1271–1288

20. Thanks for your time! Edinburgh, 16/06/2011 Mireia Usart ESADE Direction of Educational Innovation and Academic Quality (DIPQA) Av. de Pedralbes, 60-62 E-08034 Barcelona http://www.esade.edu Esade