Making Learning Fun Through a Ludic Simulation

Min Liu; Lucas Horton; Jina Kang; Royce Kimmons; Jaejin Lee

Making Learning Fun Through a Ludic Simulation

Min Liu, Lucas Horton, Jina Kang, Royce Kimmons, Jaejin Lee

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The purpose of this paper is to describe a ludic simulation designed for middle school space science and examine students’ experiences with it in an attempt to explore the value of ludic simulations in education and better understand how such environments can be designed to support learning. The findings of this study provided evidence to show that sixth-graders considered fun in using the ludic simulation and highlighted several attributes that made it a fun learning experience: exploratory, interactive, immersive, playful, media-rich, roleplay, engaging narrative, and a challenging problem scenario. The results have indicated that having a playful experience is important for this age group and that a fun experience can help motivate the students to learn school subjects.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2013
Editors	Jan Herrington, Alec Couros, Valerie Irvine
Place of Publication	Victoria, Canada
Publisher	Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Pages	2535
Number of pages	1
State	Published - Jun 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Making Learning Fun Through a Ludic Simulation. / Liu, Min; Horton, Lucas; Kang, Jina et al.
Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2013. ed. / Jan Herrington; Alec Couros; Valerie Irvine. Victoria, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2013. p. 2535.

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