23
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Gaming the System: Video Games as a Theoretical Framework for Instructional Design

      Preprint

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          In order to facilitate analyzing video games as learning systems and instructional designs as games, we present a theoretical framework that integrates ideas from a broad range of literature. The framework describes games in terms of four layers, all sharing similar structural elements and dynamics: a micro-level game focused on immediate problem-solving and skill development, a macro-level game focused on the experience of the game world and story and identity development, and two meta-level games focused on building or modifying the game and on social interactions around it. Each layer casts gameplay as a co-construction of the game and the player, and contains three dynamical feedback loops: an exploratory learning loop, an intrinsic motivation loop, and an identity loop.

          Related collections

          Most cited references2

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          From Content to Context: Videogames as Designed Experience

          K Squire (2006)
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds

              Bookmark

              Author and article information

              Journal
              26 January 2014
              Article
              1401.6716
              af4edba0-eb0e-40b0-90e4-9eb33c8c63a9

              http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

              History
              Custom metadata
              Proposed for a conference paper presentation at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2014 (Boulder, CO)
              physics.ed-ph cs.CY

              Comments

              Comment on this article