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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?

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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
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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

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