Title: Potential of digital games for learning
Speaker: Prof. Maja Pivec
Start: 02:08:38
Length: 49:14

n this talk we will present potential of digital games for learning in formal and informal settings. On the case of Serious Game Design Summer School (http://summerschool.engagelearning.eu/ ) we will outline a role-play of a game design company as a successful form of interdisciplinary and problem based learning for young creative people to acquire game design, programming, marketing and entrepreneurial skills. We will present results from the ongoing project Serious Sports (www.serious-sports.org), where we carried out thorough assessment of sport related games, and how these games have value and possible application for sports and fitness. The research work was applied on assessing 32 commercial off the shelf games and 5 main game peripherals with regard to their usage. The underlying developed research methodologies and listed research results form a theoretical framework for the analysis of sports-related concepts and practices in digital games and simulations and their integration into sports science and physical education pedagogy.

Maja Pivec, Ph.D, is professor of Game Based Learning and Learning with Multimedia at the FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. Her research interests are in the field of affective and emotional aspects of human-computer interaction, with emphasis on game-based learning and innovative learning approaches, and different aspects of e-learning.
She is editor and co-editor of three book publications in the area of innovative learning approaches. She is guest editor of eLearning Papers nº 25 Game-Based Learning: new practices, new classrooms, June 2011 and of British Journal of Educational Technology, Special issue on learning from games, May 2007. She was hosting European Conference on Game-Based Learning in 2009. She is co-ordinator, scientific leader or partner in several EU or national founded projects. Her research work is published and presented at more than 90 international conferences and publications.
She is Editorial Commitee Member of eLearning Papers. She is international advisory board member of Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology. She is Program Committee member of GAMEON conferences and F.R.O.G. conference. She is reviewer for European Science Foundation and for British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).