TradeAway: Collaborative Game Design and Development as a Learning Environment

• Published in: European Conference on Games Based Learning pp. 546 - 553
• Main Authors: Pöyry-Lassila, Päivi, Kuhmonen, Annemari, Marjanen, Päivi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Reading Academic Conferences International Limited 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Case studies; Collaborative learning; Education; Entrepreneurs; Epistemology; Experiments; Games; Higher education; Iterative methods; Knowledge; Knowledge management; Learning; Pedagogy; Research methodology; Researchers; School environment; Teachers

Learning games and game-based learning have been taken into use in various fields of education. Even though the use of learning games has been widely studied, not enough is known about how to pedagogically design game development projects as learning environments. In our paper we explore the design...