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Using Elgg to support an Alternate Reality Game
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Overview
• A story-based treasure hunt with weekly clues introducing University support services with points and prizes
• Can games support induction?• Alternate reality games deliberately blur the
line between the in-game and out-of-game experience.
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How did it work?
• Weekly triggers by email directing students to Community
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Storyline
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Saboteurs
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Methodology
• Grounded in the existing proven pedagogical techniques of game-based learning
• Extended into the context of a mystery
• Removed from the setting of the classroom by making the game outside all course structures.
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What worked?(and what didn’t)
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Self-supporting
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Too cryptic
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IT Skills
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Teamwork
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Teamwork and…Fun
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Teamwork and…Fun…and IT
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Being part of something
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Summary
Sample feedback from the 12 students who completed all tasks:
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• "In induction week they tell you where to go to get help, Careers for instance. But you forget it all 5 minutes after you've left. This was brilliant - now I really know where to go.“
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• “I was wrapped up in too much programming, it helped give me a break and get a new perspective”
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• “…a really good way to learn”
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• “Thank you all for a wonderful and inspiring term! From chasing orange techie people to strapping spoons on my forehead, its been fun :)”
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What next?
• Learning and Teaching Fellowship
• School-based, intense induction week(s)
• The next run…(infiltrating secret societies)