{"id":117,"date":"2015-06-17T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T09:06:24","slug":"litebox-event-embedding-serious-games-in-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/2015\/06\/17\/litebox-event-embedding-serious-games-in-the-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedding \u2018serious\u2019 games in the curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Embedding \u2018serious\u2019 games in the curriculum: an aide to active learning?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Please <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uniofbath.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=48d96be9-6b9a-49d6-ae02-b56072bd1ad3\">watch back a recording of the event<\/a><\/strong> for further information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Using a Simulation Game\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119438759?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah discusses using the simulation game Democracy 2 with students working in a special technology enabled group-work room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedding Serious Games\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119438758?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rationale for embedding serious simulation games into the teaching of Social Policy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is great potential for serious games to facilitate active learning, particularly in courses that are strongly theory-led and where traditional teaching methods may reinforce students\u2019 feelings of detachment from the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop explored using serious games to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>facilitate active learning in the classroom<\/li>\n<li>share their own experience of using similar technology-enabled aides to teaching<\/li>\n<li>discuss potential applications for serious games to support their students\u2019 needs<\/li>\n<li>identify what resources are needed to realise the benefits of these aides to learning and teaching more widely across the University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Hannah Durrant is the University of Bath's Institute for Policy Research Co-ordinator, who is seeking to engage with colleagues across the University with an interest in technology enhanced learning and teaching. Previously, Hannah was Teaching Fellow in Social and Policy Sciences, and developed her interest in using serious games in learning and teaching as a result of the encouragement of other tirelessly creative and committed academics in the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embedding \u2018serious\u2019 games in the curriculum: an aide to active learning? &nbsp; Please watch back a recording of the event for further information. &nbsp; There is great potential for serious games to facilitate active learning, particularly in courses that are...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73],"tags":[32,33,34,20],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-review","tag-game-based-learning","tag-simulation-games","tag-social-policy","tag-student-engagement"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/litebox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}