Educators as Game Developers--Model-Driven Visual Programming of Serious Games

摘要

Students use their own mobile devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets to work and study anywhere and anytime. Consequently, there is a high interest in using one's own mobile devices in the educational context. This presents a chance as well as a challenge for educators, who can now make use of mobile learning for supplying their students with tailored didactical content that is accessible anywhere and anytime. Therefore, in our work, we focus on presenting educational content using serious games. In order to allow educators without technical knowledge to create custom serious games, we propose a model-driven visual programming framework. In this paper, we present our framework, which consists of GLiSMo--a domain-specific modeling language--and the visual programming environment for serious games (VIPEr) that allows educators to use their didactical knowledge with a point and click graphical editor to create their own serious games.