Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Francesco Bellotti; Riccardo Berta; Alessandro De Gloria

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 5, No. 2010 (Mar 23, 2010)

Serious Games represent an acknowledged potential for instruction, because they are able to strongly motivate learners. They can also provide immersive environments where advanced users can practice knowledge and skills, also exploiting multimodal...

Supporting authors in the development of task‐based learning in serious virtual worlds

Francesco Bellotti; Riccardo Berta; Alessandro De Gloria; Ludovica Primavera

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 41, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 86–107

Serious virtual worlds (SVWs) represent a great opportunity for learning and should embed a lot of high‐quality contextualised information so that the player can take the most from his or her exploration of the environment. This requires defining...

Educazione all'imprenditorialit: spunti di riflessione

Alessandra Antonaci; Francesco Bellotti; Riccardo Berta; Francesca Dagnino; Alessandro De Gloria; Elisa Lavagnino; Michela Ott

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 2 (Aug 31, 2014) pp. 68–73

This contribution deals with Entrepreneurship Education (EE), a growing area of education that reaches beyond the strict confines of economics and business studies. Indeed, the fundamental aim of EE is to develop an entrepreneurially oriented...

An activity theory-based model for serious games analysis and conceptual design

Maira B. Carvalho; Francesco Bellotti; Riccardo Berta; Alessandro De Gloria; Carolina Islas Sedano; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge; Jun Hu; Matthias Rauterberg

Computers & Education Vol. 87, No. 1 (September 2015) pp. 166–181

There are currently a number of models, frameworks and methodologies for serious games analysis and design that provide useful interpretations of the possibilities and limitations offered by serious games. However, these tools focus mostly on high...

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Framing the Adoption of Serious Games in Formal Education

Sylvester Arnab; Riccardo Berta; Jeffrey Earp; Sara de Freitas; Maria Popescu; Margarida Romero; Ioana Stanescu; Mireia Usart

Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 10, No. 2 (2012) pp. 159–171

Nowadays formal education systems are under increasing pressure to respond and adapt to rapid technological innovation and associated changes in the way we work and live. As well as accommodation of technology in its ever-diversifying forms, there...

Mapping learning and game mechanics for serious games analysis

Sylvester Arnab; Theodore Lim; Maira B. Carvalho; Francesco Bellotti; Sara Freitas de; Sandy Louchart; Neil Suttie; Riccardo Berta; Alessandro De Gloria

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 46, No. 2 (Mar 30, 2015) pp. 391–411

Although there is a consensus on the instructional potential of Serious Games (SGs), there is still a lack of methodologies and tools not only for design but also to support analysis and assessment. Filling this gap is one of the main aims of the...