Serious Games and Soft Skills in Higher Education: A Case Study of the Design of Compete!

N McGowan, A López-Serrano, D Burgos - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article describes the serious game Compete!, developed within the European
Erasmus+ framework, that aims to teach soft skills to higher education students in order to …

Shortfall online: The development of an educational computer game for teaching sustainable engineering to millennial generation students

ZA Gennett - 2010 - search.proquest.com
Millennial Generation students bring significant learning and teaching challenges to the
classroom, because of their unique learning styles, breadth of interests related to social and …

Framework for Using Professional Engineering Tools to Develop Games in Post-Secondary Education

M Kornevs, H Krishna, I Orhan - International …, 2023 - journal.seriousgamessociety.org
Teaching is changing with increasing emphasis on teaching digitally to enable remote
learning. While it gives more opportunities to engage students, it also makes it harder to …

Sustainability learning through gaming: An exploratory study.

C Fabricatore, X López - Electronic Journal of e-learning, 2012 - ERIC
This study explored the potential of digital games as learning environments to develop
mindsets capable of dealing with complexity in the domain of sustainability. Building …

Racing academy: A case study of a digital game for supporting students learning of physics and engineering

R Joiner, I Iacovides, J Darling, A Diament… - Cases on digital game …, 2013 - igi-global.com
Racing Academy is a digital game, which is specifically designed to engage and motivate
students in science and engineering. The aim of this chapter is to report a case study where …

Using role-playing games to broaden engineering education

JR McConville, S Rauch, I Helgegren… - International Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose In today's complex society, there is an increasing demand to include a wider set of
skills in engineering curricula, especially skills related to policy, society and sustainable …

Accelerating the Energy Transition through Serious Gaming: Testing Effects on Awareness, Knowledge and Efficacy Beliefs.

T Ouariachi, W Elving - Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2020 - ERIC
To have sustainable societies, we need to accelerate the energy transition towards clean
energy solutions, however, awareness and understanding of the process as well as …

The educational impact of a comprehensive serious game within the university setting: Improving learning and fostering motivation

L Rodriguez-Calzada, M Paredes-Velasco… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The integration of technology in higher education has transformed teaching, turning students
into active participants in their learning. Faced with the limitations of conventional methods …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of serious games, as a tool for education for sustainable development

G Liarakou, E Sakka, C Gavrilakis… - European Journal of …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Serious games could play a critical role as a pedagogical tool of Education for Sustainable
Development, providing students with opportunities to experience the complex and abstract …

Implementing serious games through a pedagogical lens in engineering education: an experimental study

G Bertozzi, C Paciarotti, MM Schiraldi - European Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Serious games are instructional tools that harmonise different pedagogical approaches and
pursue specific behavioural and learning outcomes. Characterised by flexibility and …