1st International Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012)

In conjunction with EC-TEL 2012

Accepted authors will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

Technology Enhanced Learning is a promising area where Serious Games can have an impact beyond pure entertainment. Despite this potential, two issues stand in the way of achieving learning effects:

• Few pedagogical theories are sufficiently formalized to allow implementation
• Pedagogical principles are implicitly implemented in the game story, structure, and characters, so that it is very difficult to test different theories on the same game mechanics. This results in low reusability and high costs

To address these issues, this workshop focuses on:

• Formalizations of pedagogical theories potentially capable to drive the elements in a game's world, such as narrative and characters' behaviour
• Game frameworks based on storytelling, explicit game mechanics and intelligent agents that can provide an environment to implement pedagogical formalizations