Simultaneously Developing a Serious Game and Its Classroom Use for Fostering Conceptual Understanding of Electrical Circuits: The Effect of the Game 'E&E Electrical Endeavours' on Secondary Students Conceptual Understanding of Electrical Circuits

Making use of favourable local circumstances an interdisciplinary team of content-experts, educational researchers, game-designers and secondary school teachers was formed. Using a design-research approach, the team simultaneously developed and tested a serious game for the teaching off electrical circuits and effective classroom practice using it.

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