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Title: | GAming Project in Chemistry - GAP ⓒ: A remedial teaching course including a proof-of-concept game |
Authors: | Brassinne, Kristien Daems, Benny Reynders, Monique Coninx, Karin Guedens, Wanda |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Citation: | Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference Europe (BTLC 2018), Manchester, UK, 09/04/2018-12/04/2018 |
Abstract: | A GAming Project in chemistry developed at Hasselt University is a challenging
digital learning environment with multiple game levels. In a ‘virtual Hasselt University
world’ one can explore ten areas, corresponding to ten chapters of a general
chemistry course at high school level in Flanders. GAPⓒ, build in CourseSites by
Blackboard, generates added value compared to common teaching methods in
offering students the opportunity to improve their skills and learning of basic concepts
in general chemistry in an open virtual world. A GAPⓒ player can roam through this
virtual world thereby having a high degree of freedom in approaching different
objectives to reach. Indeed, this is found very important since the GAPⓒ platform
essentially aims at strengthening all students’ insights in general chemistry concepts
regardless their prior knowledge.
Next to the use of the online chemistry platform as a remedial distance learning tool it
can be applied during course schedule as well. The blending of lectures, refresher
sessions, practical hands-on training during laboratory assignments and the possibility
of e-learning take into account the different background of students and would
certainly improve their learning outcomes.
The platform was chosen due to its numerous advantages, such as the possibility to
enroll an unlimited number of users, the number of different types of questions, the
grading centre with the Smart Views, the ease of organising a course with tons of
course structures … |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/25936 |
Category: | C2 |
Type: | Conference Material |
Appears in Collections: | Research publications
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