BioArcade

生物街机

• 批准号: 0714779
• 负责人: Robert Hone
• 金额: $ 63.65万
• 依托单位: Red Hill Studios
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0714779&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BioArcade

Red Hills Studios proposes to design and develop BioArcade, a suite of online biology games for youth ages 9 to 13. Unique to the field of educational games is the specialized and innovative modding feature that Red Hills Studio will develop. Modding will allow learners to create their own customized versions of BioArcade games for dissemination to other learners. BioArcade games are intended to encourage extended game play and motivation for learning key biology concepts through exciting interactive game modules developed by a leading group of game developers and science content experts. The underlying educational and scientific framework for BioArcade will be developed collaboratively with Co-PI, Dr. Janis Cannon-Bowers at the University of Central Florida and Roger Bybee at the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), along with the projects Scientific and Design Advisory Boards. The project will rigorously evaluate modding as a potential new approach in game design. The modding innovation will be studied in a three-condition randomized controlled trial to determine its effectiveness in promoting deep exploration of scientific concepts and increased knowledge gain. Results of the study will be disseminated to the informal learning community through peer-reviewed educational journals, papers, and presentations at science education and game conferences. Extensive formative and summative evaluations, conducted by Knight Williams Research Communications, will provide valuable insight and assessment of the game design approach for science content learning in informal venues. BioArcade will be widely disseminated daily to millions of young learners online through PBSKids: www.pbskids.org/

Red Hills Studios计划设计和开发BioArade，这是一款面向9至13岁青少年的在线生物游戏套件。Red Hills Studio将开发的专门和创新的建模功能是教育游戏领域的独特之处。Modelding将允许学习者创建他们自己的BioArade游戏的定制版本，以便传播给其他学习者。BioArade游戏旨在通过由领先的游戏开发商和科学内容专家开发的激动人心的互动游戏模块，鼓励延长游戏时间和学习关键生物学概念的动力。BioArade的基本教育和科学框架将与共同PI、中佛罗里达大学的Janis Cannon-Bowers博士和生物科学课程研究(BSCS)的Roger Bybee博士以及项目科学和设计咨询委员会合作开发。该项目将严格评估建模作为游戏设计中一种潜在的新方法。建模创新将在三个条件的随机对照试验中进行研究，以确定其在促进科学概念深入探索和增加知识获取方面的有效性。研究结果将通过同行评议的教育期刊、论文以及在科学教育和游戏会议上的陈述传播给非正式学习社区。由奈特·威廉姆斯研究通信公司进行的广泛的形成性和终结性评估将为非正式场所的科学内容学习提供有价值的洞察和评估游戏设计方法。BioArade每天将通过PBSKid：www.pbskids.org在线广泛传播给数百万年轻学习者。