A new study by our top-rated Computer Science department proposes an innovative model aimed at facilitating collaboration between educators and video game designers in order to create more effective game-based learning tools.
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Gamification has emerged as a powerful tool in various fields, revolutionizing the way we engage with technology, education, marketing, and more. By integrating game mechanics into non-gaming contexts, gamification taps into our innate desire for challenge, reward, and accomplishment.
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Schools in all 50 states are supplementing or even replacing the beaker and Bunsen burners found in traditional lab settings with a simulation program that teaches science through gamification - incorporating elements of game-playing in order to make the program more engaging.
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For Shang-Hua Teng, theoretical computer science has never been purely theoretical. Now 58, Teng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and a two-time winner of the Gödel Prize, an annual award recognizing groundbreaking theoretical work.
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If you're a person who enjoys beer, you've likely been aware of the craft beer boom of the last couple of decades. India Pale Ales, or IPAs, have become some of the most popular types of beer brewed in local breweries.
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Key Points: Researchers believe tiny stone spheres found on the island of Santorini could be one of the earliest examples of an Ancient Greek board game. They used machine learning to analyze 700 stones according to a new methodology that shed light on potential patterning within the stone group.
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This was observed using some clever science and shows that it wasn't bilingual children, but children in a language class with multiple accents who learned and remembered new words at an accelerated rate.
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An educational game designed to teach kids the emerging concept of agrivoltaics will get a test run this fall at two kid-friendly Midwest museums. A team led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers is developing an educational game it hopes can inspire future farmers to think differently about solar power.
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Gamification has proven to be effective in increasing employees ' motivation. Gamification boosts users' perceived abilities by simplifying difficult activities or hurdles through practice or by reducing the activation threshold of the intended behavior like Adobe Captivate Prime does.
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Like many schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we run a three-year course for science GCSE, but it is a challenging step up for many students from lower school learning. Early in the course, students need to gain fluency with atomic structure, linking it to the periodic table, isotopes and ions.
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Our ambitious goal as a company is to use gamification to drive collective change in the attitudes and behavior of humanity, to build a better world. When it comes to our largest clientele, the life science industry, the desired collective changes in attitudes and behavior have to do with e.g. compliance to treatments, engagement to prevention, patient education and general awareness.
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As crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter have helped lower the barrier to entry for new designers and publishers, there is an increasing variety of games to choose from. Despite being made mainly of cardboard, many new games are complex, memorable and educational experiences - on a par with the most technologically advanced computer-based simulations.
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She has since embarked on a career that aims to communicate health information in an unconventional way-using gaming technology.
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