Special Session in EDUCON2016
Special Session: Special Session "STEAM Technologies for Engineering Learning"
Conference: EDUCON2016
Date: 10-13 April 2016
Venue: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Best Poster Award at the ECGBL 2014 for mLab
We are happy to announce that our team has won the "Best Poster Award" at the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL), which was hosted by the Research and Training Center for Culture and Computer Science (FKI) at the University of Applied Sciences HTW in Berlin, Germany (9-10 October 2014).
The short paper entitled "HistoryLand: a Serious Game for History Learning in Primary Education", which was presented by our team as a poster during the conference, was awarded the best poster prize following a blind voting process.
Title: HistoryLand: a Serious Game for History Learning in Primary Education
Authors & Affiliation: Stergios Tegos, Maria Kioumousidou, Maria Vavami, Dimitra Kioutsiouki, Dimitris Gkoumas, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos
Abstract: Research has indicated that games can positively impact learning by providing a potentially motivating and engaging learning environment that can complement traditional education. This is especially important for such domains as History, which students often consider to be one of the least appealing learning subjects. In this paper, we present the design of the prototype online game HistoryLand, along with an evaluation study conducted in the context of a Greek primary school course on Modern History. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of the game on students’ immersion, collaboration, knowledge improvement and enjoyment. The findings of the study revealed a positive students’ opinion about the HistoryLand game, which was perceived as useful for comprehension of the historical events discussed in class.
Conference IMCL2014
Conference: IMCL2014 – 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning
Date: 13 - 14 November 2014
Venue: Thessaloniki, Greece
Submission Date: 9 June 2014
Conference ICALT 2014
Conference: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2014)
Date: 7-10 July 2014
Venue: Athens, Greece
Submission Date (Full paper, Short paper, Poster): 1 February 2014
Conference ECGBL 2013
Conference: 7th European Conference on Games Based Learning
Date: 3-4 October 2013
Venue: Porto, Portugal
Submission Date (Abstract): 29 March 2013