Special Track
Learning Analytics and Assessment in Serious Games
Focus
Serious Games (SG) offer a high potential to support and improve learning in engineering educational and training settings. But even if SG success cases do exit, it is still to be proven how this approach can be scaled up to be applied into large domains and how to simplify and streamline SG integration in the curriculum. A key aspect for SG acceptance and application is the assessment of knowledge and skills acquired the use of the SGa. New techniques such as learning analytics and stealth assessment can contribute in this effort to better assess the students educational gain and become a reference for new evidence-based models in education and training.
This special session has been proposed by the GALA (Games and Learning Alliance) Network of Excellence about Serious Games, funded by EU ICT Seven Framework Programme. The objective is to collect, analyse and discuss the latest outcomes on the topic of learning analytics and assessment in SGs in engineering education and related fields (e.g. STEM+).
Topics of Interest
We seek papers concerning applications of SGs in STEM+ areas in general and in engineering education in particular. Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Learning analytics in SG to improve assessment
- Stealth assessment
- Learning analytics and visualization techniques
- Learning metrics applied to SG
- Integration of SG assessment in learning management systems (e.g. Moodle, Sakai)
- Learning analytics and standards
- Assessing learning transfer across disciplines and/or applications
- Learning analytics applied to game-like simulations
Preparation of Contributions
Use the following template to prepare your contributions:
Short papers (2 pages) and full papers (4-6 pages) will be accepted.
Program Committee
- Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH
- Rob Nadolski, Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, OUNL
- Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Dep. Software Eng. & AI, Univ. Complutense de Madrid
- Francesco Bellotti , DITEN, University of Genoa
Important Dates
| 01 Oct 2013 | Abstract Submission |
| 18 Oct 2013 | Invitations to Submit Complete Paper |
| 11 Nov 2013 | Complete Paper Submission |
| 18 Nov 2013 | Work-in-Progress Complete Paper Submission |
| 16 Dec 2013 | Notification of Acceptance |
| 31 Jan 2014 | Author Registration and Payment Deadline |
| 28 Feb 2014 | Deadline submission camera-ready final paper |
| 3-5 Apr 2014 | EDUCON2014 |
Publications
All accepted papers will appear in the EDUCON2014 proceedings, published by IEEE and listed in IEEE Xplorer, and submitted to Scopus for evaluation.