Educational environmental geoscience e-gaming to provide stimulating and effective learning

Pringle

Abstract

Current Higher Education students mostly comprise so-called Generation Y who have grown up with personal computer and e-gaming technologies. As such, they may respond positively to educational gaming as stimulating and effective complementary learning tools. This paper reports on evaluation of an environmental geoscience e-game developed with other complementary learning technologies for a final year option module for GEES-subject undergraduate students. The e-game was based on an author-published academic article. Semi-quantitative and qualitative evaluation evidences this was an effective approach and complemented more traditional educational learning methods, with a high level of student engagement, including, unexpectedly, with the academic article.

Citation

Pringle. (2013). Educational environmental geoscience e-gaming to provide stimulating and effective learning. Planet, 27(1), 21 - 28 (7). https://doi.org/10.11120/plan.2013.27010021

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Dec 15, 2015
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Journal: Planet (AKA Higher Education Pedagogies)
• Print ISSN: 1473-1835
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21 - 28 (7)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.11120/plan.2013.27010021
• Publisher URL: http://journals.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/plan