Title: Transforming Traditional Digital Education Into Game Based Education: An Action-research in Teachers and School Heads Trainings in the Philippines
Stream: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Peg Koedel, University Paderborn, Germany
Abstract:
The purpose of implementing gaming methods and mechanisms into digital education courses lies in the way humans start learning for their very first time on earth. All children have an intrinsic will to learn, and they know by exploring, socializing, try, and error; and children love to collect things, sort them, and are happy if their achievements surround them. Adults are the same. They deny the point of playing games to fit into a severe business-world. While growing up, humans become more and more extrinsically oriented by others. Game-based learning is an approach to find back to our ways to learn intrinsically and being self-motivated. However, gamifying or implementing challenging games for the ASEAN region is not easy because the existing games are very much oriented on western cultural settings. We chose to use an open-source platform called Minetest. The game offers case-oriented gamified content and can be adapted to challenges by culture, courses, and educational goals. Minetest is similar to the beloved-game Minecraft and is as now the most appropriate game to be integrated into the pool of courses due to its light capacity, user-friendliness, and easy engagement. This meant embedding a game into the course and re-structuring the content of the course around this game. The challenges we faced, were based on age and understanding games as a waste of time, even the center decided to go for game-based education. The presentation will show the steps towards and the results of piloting the first MINETESTcourse.
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