(893)EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES IN VIDEO GAMES: USING THEORIES OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE TO INFORM INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO GAME DESIGN FOR NON-EDUCATIONAL GAMES

摘要

Many well-known researchers have examined video games in order to develop new approaches to teaching [1];;[2]. Others have analysed teaching methods to find new approaches to instructional video game design. These new approaches are based on established teaching methods such as use of learning types, engagement, the presence of feedback or the impact of learners? behaviour [3];;[4]. Through our work, we aim to supplement the findings of these researchers. We will establish a model to help video game designers with little or no pedagogy training plan the instructional design for their games, whether they are educational games or not. This model will propose an operationalized method to teach the mechanics and dynamics of a video game through the selection and structure of appropriate educational objectives [5];[6];[7]. The first step to build this model, however, is to understand how educational objectives are currently used, albeit involuntarily, and structured in video games, especially in non-educational games.Our research aims to 1) identify educational objectives used in non-educational video games and 2) propose a structure of educational objectives as they are used in non-educational video games.In order to achieve these objectives, thirty (30) mechanics and dynamics from ten (10) non-educational video games were selected. We analysed the structure of the identified educational objectives and organized them in a model. The reliability of the analysis was verified by intercoder agreement [8]. Links between educational objectives of the same or different domains were identified. Results will enable us to propose a model of educational objectives for video games that can be used by designers and scholars to better identify and create structures of educational objectives in their games. Our research will contribute towards a model for instructional video game design based on the application of teaching techniques appropriate to each classification of educational objectives [5];;[6];;[7].