I-Corps: CodeSpells: Game-Based Education in American Schools

I-Corps：CodeSpells：美国学校基于游戏的教育

• 批准号: 1359492
• 负责人: William Griswold
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1359492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; CodeSpells; Game; Based; Education

Researchers have developed an immersive 3D video game to teach programming, where users have to use Java programming language to complete levels. This project to date has expanded the boundaries of educational technology in multiple ways: 1) rather than being a lecture-based system, it is a digital game with an engaging plot, characters, and setting; 2) it includes a competitive multiplayer mode; yet 3) the technology is also a full-spectrum learning platform that includes an interactive textbook, an in-game integrated development environment (IDE), automated IDE support, live chat support, and a storyline that progressively introduces complex programming concepts.This project would enable providing scalable computer science education to a large number of middle and high school students. Advances in educational research would be made through this project as it explores what it means to provide engaging game-based education on regional and national scales. There is a known challenge in hiring qualified computer science teachers at the K-12 level, and this project could help bring highly engaging computer science education to the classroom without having to increase instructional costs.

研究人员开发了一个沉浸式的3D视频游戏来教授编程，用户必须使用Java编程语言来完成级别。迄今为止，该项目以多种方式扩大了教育技术的界限：1）而不是作为基于讲座的系统，而是具有引人入胜的情节，角色和设置的数字游戏； 2）它包括竞争性多人游戏模式； 3）该技术还是一个全光谱学习平台，其中包括一本交互式教科书，游戏中的集成开发环境（IDE），自动化的IDE支持，实时聊天支持以及逐步介绍复杂的编程概念的故事情节。该项目将使该项目为大量的中学和高中生提供可扩展的计算机科学教育。教育研究的进步将通过该项目探讨在区域和国家规模上提供基于游戏的教育意味着什么。在K-12级别雇用合格的计算机科学老师时，这是一个已知的挑战，该项目可能有助于将高度吸引人的计算机科学教育带入课堂而无需增加教学成本。