Speaker：Prof. Meng-Tzu Cheng (Department of Biology, NCUE)

  • Event Date: 2022-10-28
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Topic：Analyzing game data to illuminate student content-specific gameplay decisions

Speaker：Prof. Meng-Tzu Cheng (Department of Biology, NCUE)

Date Time：Fri. Oct 28, 2022, 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM 

Place： 4F-427, Assembly Building I
 

Online Seminars- Google Meet
https://meet.google.com/sqy-fzus-oog
 
Abstract
 
Games can be rich environments for learning and can elicit evidence of students’ conceptual understanding and inquiry processes. Illuminating students’ content-specific gameplay decisions, or methods of completing game tasks related to a certain domain, requires a context that is open-ended enough for students to make choices that demonstrate their thinking. Doing this also requires rich log data and methods of Game Learning Analytics (GLA) that are granular enough to look at the specific choices most relevant to that context and domain. In the talk, I will present research done on student exploration of high school level Mendelian genetics in a multiplayer online game called The Radix Endeavor by closely collaborating with MIT Education Arcade. Some of the ways in which gameplay data can be analyzed to yield results that feed back into the learning ecosystem will be discussed. 

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