taxonomy of serious games

Which Games Approaches will work for you?

one size does not fit all

Session Flow

Background

A Broad Church

The Taxonomy

Considerations

Who is Caspian

Europe's leading developer of simulations and games for education and training:

Motor Finance Technology

Delivering programs for organizations such as:

Pharmaceuticals Defense/Policing Education

Thinking Worlds – Unique Engine

Browser Based Delivery 3D Thin Client Approach Standard Browsers Secure Architectures

Designer Centered Learning Focused Trainer Friendly

Enables Rapid Development Easy & Flexible authoring Template designs

Background

Defence Academy commissioned

first ever UK MoD whitepaper on

“serious games”

Aims:

Capture and assess existing evidence for

serious games in education and training

Identify Options in Serious Games

Match learning tasks to an ILS

taxonomy

Assess the DCMT learning landscape

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Session Flow

Background

A Broad Church

The Taxonomy

Considerations

Many types of video game

Many types of learning requirement

Learning Objectives

Planning StrategyProcessTeam skillsSpatialMotorCommunicationCritical thinking

Constraints

CashDevelopment TimeTraining timeUsersInfrastructureSkills

Session Flow

Background

A Broad Church

The Taxonomy

Considerations

A Useful Taxonomy Egocentric Sims

Branching Story Sims

Real Time Strategy Sims

Exocentric Sims

Episodic Sims

Resource Management

Virtual Worlds

Device Based Sims

EgoCentic

http://www.thinkingworlds.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Branching Story

http://www.thinkingworlds.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Exocentric

Real Time Strategy

Episodic

Construction & Management

Virtual Worlds

Device based

Session Flow

Background

A Broad Church

The Taxonomy

Considerations

Considerations

Objectives sought

Technical Deployment

Budgetary Realities

Urgency

Which Games Approaches will work for you?

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