BEACONING are improving serious games applicability

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1 Realising an Applied Gaming Eco System Gaming Learning Analytics: how projects RAGE and BEACONING are improving serious games applicability Baltasar Fernandez e UCM Research Group, ucm.es REV conference, Madrid, 26/2/2016

2 Some definitions Serious games Any use of digital games with purposes other than entertainment (Michael & Chen, 2006) e.g. educational games, advertgames Some kinds of educational simulations could be serious games Gamification using game techniques into non gaming environments E.g. competition, collaboration, badgets, leaderboards, Game Analytics is the process of capturing game interaction data with different improvement purposes e.g. debugging, monetization

3 Why DoD produce a free high quality game? America s Army 3

4 America s Army 4

5 Remote laboratories and serious games? KIBO tangible programming Tufts Uni. KIBO is a robot kit specifically designed for young children aged 4 7 years old The child creates a sequence of instructions (a program) using the wooden blocks. They scan the blocks with the KIBO body to tell the robot what to do.

6 More definitions Learning Analytics Improving education based on data analysis Data driven Evidence based education Gaming Learning Analytics is a specific case when all interaction data is used in serious games for improving the learning process supported by the games Educational games not as black boxes

7 Learning analytics steps 1. Collecting large amounts of data from a number of channels Interaction with the system 2. Translating that data into information or actionable insights. It may be impossible to track how much a student really absorbed from one lesson but the system CAN track his/her behaviour and use that as a signal 3. Use of the information for different purposes Personalization and adaptation. Once the system gets the signal, it can then personalize each student s learning environment. Assessment. Use that information for formative or summative assessment Predicting the best course in the future. As students use the system for a prolonged period of time, educators will be able to track what works and what doesn t and adjust accordingly how learning analytics are changing the teachers role/

8 Uses of Gaming Learning Analytics in educational games Game testing game analytics It is the game realiable? How many students finish the game? Average time to complete the game? Game deployment in the class tools for teachers Real time information for supporting the teacher Stealth student evaluation Knowing what is happening when the game is deployed in the class Formal Game evaluation From pre post test to evaluation based on game learning analytics??

9 Methodologies for serious game development In the medical domain USERS Torrente et at (2014) Development of Game Like Simulations for Procedural Knowledge in Heathcare Education. IEEE Transactions on Learning Tecnologies. 7(1), 69 82

10 Formal evaluation pre post Formal evaluation of games is very complex and expensive Pre test Post test Very few games have been formally probed to be effective Similar results with Learning Analytics than with pre post test? 10

11 Can we use Gaming Learning Analytics for formal evaluation of games? Formal evaluation of games from the analysis of the user (interaction) data?

12 Game design and development with Gaming Learning analytics

13 H2020 serious games projects XX XX BEACONING XX Prosoci allearn XX XX XX XX RAGE XX Nooneleftbehind 3d XX Tune In XX XX

14 H2020 RAGE in a nutshell Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-System RAGE will deliver advanced technology and know how to support the European Applied Games industry build up and job creation February 2015, 4 years, 19 partners, 9M Creating a new serious games ecosystem by making available a set of reusable technology components for developing advance serious games easier, faster and more cost effectively Open source gaming learning analytics framework provide all the required services (e.g. game tracker, learning analytics server, visualization of analytics information) easy inclusion of gaming learning analytics techniques in the new games

15 RAGE: creating the Gaming Learning Analytics infrastructure H2020 RAGE project will simplify the process of SG creation with ready to use assets Game trackers LA server infrastructure Standards support (e.g. xapi) Using interaction data for assessment Realising an Applied Gaming Eco System

16 Firsts results from RAGE: GLA support Actual architecture Logical architecture

17 GLA Asset Status in RAGE All available at github: code, documentation & demos, except 2.4c (User Model) server side, currently under collaborative development (first versión july 2016) 2.4b (Dashboard) plugin architecture, which is under development current dash boards are hard wired Additionally, rage analytics project simplifies deployment of complex assets only dependency: docker & docker compose platform and library agnostic Support for standards (xapi) Host your server side asset behind 2.4a (Auth & Authentication), enjoy single sign on free HTTPs with your clients (via nginx and letsencrypt)

18 H2020 Beaconing project BEACONING stands for Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised, Pervasive and Gameful Learning Started in january 2016, 15 partners, 9 countries, 6M Global goal is learning anytime anywhere Exploitation of technologies for contextual pervasive games and use of gamification techniques Problem based approach to learning Enriching the Gaming Learning Analytics data model with the contextual, geolocalized and accessibility information Large pilots in real settings Formal and informal learning across virtual and physical spaces

19 Gaming for good games or labs? gaming approaches applied to solving complex problems in a collaborative way to cure genes in space 19 Play to Cure : Genes in Space a mobile game in which players collaborate to analyse real genetic data (Cancer Research UK, n.d.)

20 Conclusions LA in Serious Games has a great potential from the application and research perspective Still complex to implement LA in SG Increases the (already high) cost of the games New specification could simplify the task (e.g. xapi) New open frameworks produced by EU projects and new standards specifications could greatly simplify GLA implementation and adoption And this is just the beginning (BYOD, VR, new interactions devices..) Games are driving the disruption. 20

21 Realising an Applied Gaming Eco System Thank You! Questions? Mail: GScholar: ResearchGate: Slideshare: 21