Game Play in Engineering Education— Concept and Experimental Results*

Dynamic simulators combined with educational games may create a new and improved learning culture by taking advantage of the new knowledge and skills of today's students obtained from extensive use of interactive computer games. This paper presents a design basis and a set of online learning resources based on dynamic simulators that takes advantage of game-related features. The e-learning resources are used in basic engineering courses. Feedback from approximately 1200 engineering students is analysed, the main conclusion being that students clearly view game-related learning resources as having a positive learning effect.

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