Enhancing Education and Training Initiatives Through Serious Games

Enhancing Education and Training Initiatives Through Serious Games

John Denholm, Linda Lee-Davies

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 311

ISBN13: 9781522536895|ISBN10: 1522536892|EISBN13: 9781522536901

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3689-5

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Games have become popular tools to enhance learning in both educational and business environments. Analyzing the link between games and their results on students can help provide advances for learning initiatives in the future.

Enhancing Education and Training Initiatives Through Serious Games is an essential reference source that examines the impact that games and simulations have within different learning environments. Featuring in-depth discussions on relevant topics including self-reporting surveys, project management techniques, academic training, and game design, this publication is an ideal resource for academicians, students, business owners, and professionals that are interested in discovering the advances of serious gaming techniques.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Case for Serious Games in Education (pages 1-33)

The chapter sets the scope, rationale and purpose of the book. It then covers a number of related topics, principally a review of learning theories and considers Bloom's well known learning taxonomy, and at which levels games of...

Chapter 2

Success Factors for Games in Business and Project Management (pages 34-68)

This chapter covers a number of key features of games in relation to their design and purpose and looks at previously suggested theoretical models and their criteria for effectiveness. Findings from a game study in which players'...

Chapter 3

Problem-Based Learning for Training in Project Management (pages 69-121)

The chapter starts from the viewpoint that Project Management (PM) has become an increasingly important discipline over recent years, not least in view of the number of major infrastructure projects which have been both late and over...

Chapter 4

Academic Training (pages 122-145)

This chapter focuses on training the Lecturer to understand the practical aspects and different underpinning needed to maximise the effect of using games in the teaching. Facilitative methods which then reflect on how theory is used...

Chapter 5

The Design and Development of a TBMR Game (pages 146-196)

This chapter revisits the concepts and elements important in game design, in particular in relation to a new educational game called Simulation of Business Strategy (SiBS) developed for students of business innovation. The Learning...

Chapter 6

Team-Based Games for Leadership (pages 197-222)

This chapter takes responsibility for defining and initiating the leadership ability of the students in relation to the workplace – not just now but the changing workplace they have ahead of them and not in the way it has been before...

Chapter 7

SYNERGIE: A Game for Innovators and Entrepreneurs (pages 223-240)

This chapter reviews established business analytical tools such as SWOT, PESTEL, the BCG matrix and Porter's five forces, some of which have become dated due to the use of the internet and the emergence of global markets. It...

Chapter 8

Knowledge Exchange (pages 241-264)

This chapter extends and applies the TBMR approach to the workplace directly and it explores the benefits in detail to departments and divisions in an organization. By looking at different organizational structures, their associated...

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Conclusion

Appendix

About the Authors

Index

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