r.e. European Union funded education project
ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 (ARGuing) is a
European Union education project.
The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has
also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.
The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included
a story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to
save the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and
internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400
teachers and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of
Babel'. In the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files
uploaded.
The project has created a number of resources that are available online,
these include:
1. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that
includes multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/
<http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/> - you can view inside the
platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject
line of the email TofB platform
2. A project website with additional information
http://www.arg-education.eu <http://www.arg-education.eu/> . On the
website are papers to download including:
1. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in
education
2. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with
empirical evidence of results
3. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs
could be used for other subjects or cross-subjects
4. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use
the ARG the project produced
5. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the
technology employed. (full papers are available in the conference
proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning
http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm
<http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm\
> )
The project team are also offering consultancy services to other
educators interested in using ARGs in education.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Prof. Thomas Connolly
Coordinator ARGuing EU project
University of The West of Scotland
[email protected]
http://www.arg-education.eu/ <http://www.arg-education.eu/>
