Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Learning GamesWhy and How Can Games Influence Learning?

Learning Games: Why and How Can Games Influence Learning? [This chapter looks into the explanations from the field of education as to why and how learning is expected to take place as a result of interaction with a game. This discussion focuses mainly on behaviorist, cognitivist, and the constructivist pedagogical orientations, providing examples from commercial games and the authors’ experiences playing and designing their own.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Learning GamesWhy and How Can Games Influence Learning?

Download PDF
27 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/learning-games-why-and-how-can-games-influence-learning-GredShIA39
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-46827-3
Pages
27 –54
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-46829-7_3
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter looks into the explanations from the field of education as to why and how learning is expected to take place as a result of interaction with a game. This discussion focuses mainly on behaviorist, cognitivist, and the constructivist pedagogical orientations, providing examples from commercial games and the authors’ experiences playing and designing their own.]

Published: Jun 17, 2017

Keywords: Games; Psychology; Cognition; Learning theory; Philosophy; Behaviorism; Constructivism; Affordances; Design; Learning

There are no references for this article.