Game-Based Learning Techniques To Facilitate Online Teaching
Game-Based Learning Techniques To Facilitate Online Teaching
Game-Based Learning Techniques To Facilitate Online Teaching
By Jean-Philippe Weisskopf
June 22, 2020
Summary
Our experience suggests that the use of Game-Based Learning techniques can be an effective way of reducing student anxiety towards technical and/or abstract concepts, and increase their class involvement which is consistent with existing evidence.
Use of a learning management system such as Moodle to allow students to communicate their decisions/actions in the game to the teacher.
Aligned with the learning outcomes: to not only make students participate and have fun, but to ensure they get something useful out of the game.
We then ran a survey to ask students about their learning experience in relation to the game.
47 students considered that "The game contributes to making the dynamics of the online course closer to a traditional face-to-face course".
Learning outcome #1: 39 students answered that "The game helps them to understand the relation between the yield of a bond and its value".
Learning outcome #1: 41 students answered that "The game helps them to understand the link between the economic situation and the prevailing interest rates and yields".
Learning outcome #3: 39 students answered that "The game gives them some intuition about the sources of risks which may affect the value of a bond investment".
When using a game in class, especially in a distance-learning context, it is essential to ensure that the instructions and the progression in the game are clear to all students.
While we remain cautious at this stage and cannot ensure that the game will effectively increase the number of students who acquire the learning outcomes, it seems evident that the game has had, at the very least, a positive impact on class dynamics & interaction, as well as on students' engagement & motivation for the course.
Reference
Weisskopf, D. (2020, June 24). Game-Based Learning Techniques To Facilitate Online Teaching: By Dr Jean-Philippe Weisskopf. Retrieved June 26, 2020, from https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4099334.html