Multiplayer Kinect Serious Games: A Review

Ali Alshammari; David Whittinghill

International Journal of Game-Based Learning Vol. 5, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 45–61

Single and multiplayer serious Kinect games have been used in many different areas, including education. Due to its relative newness as a technology, a dearth of literature exists concerning the requirements for the use of Kinect games in...

MAEGUS: A Sustainable Energy Simulation to Promote Energy Literacy

Kavin Nataraja; David Whittinghill

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 2474–2479

We introduce a Unity-based sustainable energy simulation called MAEGUS (Measuring Alternative Energy Generation via Unity Simulation) that is intended as an educational tool to improve energy literacy. In MAEGUS, the player takes on the role of a...

Topics: Tools & Systems, Social & Cultural Issues, Implementation Examples & Issues

Collaboration While Programming: Observing Student Perceptions of Pair Programming in the Classroom

Ronald Erdei; David Whittinghill; John Springer

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 543–551

This paper reports the findings of a pilot study exploring the affective impact of pair programming on students enrolled in an intermediate-level college undergraduate database (computer) programming course. Students in the course were allowed to...

Topics: research, Evaluation, Programming, Implementation Examples & Issues

SlidesCraft: Gamified Knowledge Dissemination with SlideShare

Jack Shen-Kuen Chang; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 344–349

The commercial success of SlideShare, bolstered by results from several academic studies, has demonstrated its use, production, and sharing of digital presentation slides as a promising tool for knowledge dissemination and personal brand building. ...

Topics: Content Development, Other, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

How the Social Element in Game-based Learning Can Interfere With Learning Outcomes: An Examination of the Research Literature

Yang Chen; Michael Oxenrider; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1820–1830

This paper discusses the discovery of a pattern in the research literature suggesting the possibility of a detrimental effect on learning when social elements are used in educational video games. The chain of causality is as follows: social elements ...

Topics: Tools & Systems, research, Content Development

Alternate Reality Game for Emergency Response Training: A Review of Research

Zheng Zhou; Jack Shen-Kuen Chang; Jing Pan; David Whittinghill

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2016) pp. 77–95

Invited from E-Learn 2014. Disasters are immense and shocking events which, in their wake, require the collective efforts of an entire community to achieve a successful recovery. Engaging and educating a broader swath of a given community well in...

Alternate Reality Game for Emergency Response Training: A Review of Research

Zheng Zhou; Jack Shen-Kuen Chang; Jing Pan; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 2145–2153

Disasters are immense and shocking events which, in their wake, require the collective efforts of an entire community to achieve a successful recovery. Engaging and educating a given community well in advance of a disaster contributes notably to...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Evaluating Technology Curricula via Analysis of Stratified Keyword Embeddings

Anna Hardy; Booker Smith; Allison Hopkins; Claudia Krogmeier; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 461–466

With technology and the industry surrounding it constantly changing, higher education institutions must constantly adapt their curriculum in order to produce employable graduates and productive scholars. This study assesses how universities teach...

Topics: Course, program, project, and other forms of evaluation

A Review of the Reliability of a Cross-Cultural Model for Digital Games

Yu-Tung Kuo; Yu-Chun Kuo; David Whittinghill

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2201–2208

The game industry has become one of the most competitive industries in the world; many companies and developers desire to expand their game markets quickly by attracting a variety of game players and consumers. Consequently, a multi-national...

Topics: social studies education, Games & Simulations

Cogent：A Case Study of Meaningful Gamification in Education with Virtual Currency

Yang Chen; Terry Burton; Mihaela Vorvoreanu; David Whittinghill

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb 21, 2015) pp. 39–45

This paper analyzes students’ experience with Cogent, a virtual economy system used throughout the 4 years of a B.S. degree in a Technology major. The case study explains the rules of the Cogent system and investigates its effectiveness to motivate...

Meltdown: A Serious Game for Environmental Awareness on Climate Change

Yang Chen; Dhiraj Bodicherla; Benjamin Scott; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 388–394

As the effects of climate change become greater and more pronounced, so too, does the need to raise awareness about its widespread implications among members of the general public. This study examines research literature on environmental education...

Topics: Content Development, Tools & Systems, Implementation Examples & Issues