A proposal for integrating Serious Games made with Unity3D into Moodle courses Frank Poschner, Dieter Wloka
- 1. Integrating Serious Games made with Unity3D into Moodle courses Frank Poschner Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Kassel
- 2. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Agenda Serious Games a short overview Motivation Technical background An approach for an integration User assessment Summary
- 3. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Explanation on Serious Games Games already exist for a very long time Reasons to play: Entertainment Profit Acquirement of skills Training games for consolidation of knowledge By having fun at games and repetition easier gathering of knowledge
- 4. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Explanation on Serious Games Learning Games, Serious Games: Games with serious background On the computer: simulators and computer games
- 5. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Explanation on Serious Games Fields of application: Medicine Health care Military applications Safety Different kinds of games in our case: training in virtual environments
- 6. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Training simulations E.g. firefighters and cycling simulations
- 7. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Training simulations E.g. firefighters and cycling simulations
- 8. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Training simulations Motivation of firefighters: Saving time of presence Training of scenarios that would be difficult to train in reality Preparation of firefighter training on the computer Time-independent practice Communication and Cooperation via network Decentralised learning
- 9. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Theory in Moodle Theoretical basis of fields of application Experts can define rules and exercises Knowledge provided by education or literature Example: Working rules for firefighters Theoretical content Tests with questions
- 10. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Theory in Moodle ( German example )
- 11. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Link to Moodle Features of Moodle are also useful for Serious Games: User profiles roles (teacher, student) Results and Grader report Etc. Why not combining theory content and training simulations in Moodle?
- 12. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Game development (Unity3D) Elements of a game: 3D models Logic (scripts / programming) Avatars AI Physics, particle systems etc. Important: Export as web player application for use in a browser
- 13. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Requirements Game can be started out of Moodle Game is treated like an activity or question type User date should be known in the game Storing the player's result in Moodle Teacher can review the results
- 14. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses An approach for an integration Using the SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) model for submitting the data Specified by the ADL ( Advanced Distributed Learning) Initiative Moodle Docs: SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM- compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM. Examples: Camtasia, iSpring
- 15. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses SCORM overview
- 16. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses SCORM and Unity3D Using the standard in the game's code Manager-entity collects data from the LMS or for sending it to the LMS GetLearnerName() SetBookmark(location) SetNormalizedScore(score) SetSatisfaction(success) Awarding of points, aborting the game etc. must be included in the game code
- 17. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses SCORM and Moodle Teacher gets the game as a package Creates a new activity: SCORM package Some necessary settings have to be set
- 18. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Game communicating with LMS
- 19. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Assessment in / for Moodle Assessment: points-based in Moodle How to assess the player? Reached the goal: full score only important to reach the goal Single actions correct maximum reached when all actions were correct Wrong actions Abortion and new start in the game (points?) Abortion of the whole simulation Time-based (Abortion or less points)
- 20. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses An example application
- 21. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses An example application
- 22. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses An example application
- 23. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Outlook Multiplayer for learning in groups Own question types for game packages Further evaluation functions for evaluating player behavior and mapping in Moodle GameAnalytics Teachers can create own scenarios and even own games ( modules )
- 24. Frank Poschner / Integrating Serious Games into Moodle courses Contact Thank you for your attention! Frank Poschner poschner@uni-kassel.de