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Games for educational purposes, or “serious games”, share the same “creative and enjoyable essence” (Akilli, 2011, p. 152) with games for entertainment, but are aimed to induce learning that meets certain pedagogic objectives. It has been identified as...

Probability Games

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In Nathan Kaplan's general education course EMR 14, "Fat Chance," students play games to connect the probability concepts learned in lecture to some fun activities that the students are familiar with. On some broader level, the goal is to see that...

Game Design Activity

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This activity in introductory game development is intended to offer concrete initial tools for solving some of the course problems, and provide comfortably small groups in which all student voices might be shared. Activity : Game Design Activity Goal : To...

Selectorate-Electorate Game

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In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting. In the activity students logged into Econvision.com and played the...

Prisoner's Dilemma Game

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Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game. Each student has a partner and a red and black playing card to indicate which of two choices the student prefers. Each choice corresponds to a...

Monster Game

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In this game, students have to find their monster cut-out's mate by practicing Portuguese body vocabulary. Each monster has an unusual collection of body part (i.e., extra legs, fingers where feet should be etc.). The instructor hands out the cards...

Mad Lib Game

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This activity makes use of a mad lib game to reinforce logical computation steps that are crucial in formal semantics. Goal: To help students practice definitions and computation steps in a fun, interactive setting. Background: This in-class activity was...

Roman Numeral Analysis and Class Game

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Students practice and review the fundamental skills of Roman numeral analysis through a competitive question/answer game. Goal/s: For students to become comfortable with the fundamental skills of Roman numeral analysis: chord rotation, building chords on...

Game/Simulation

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Plague Inc. Immunology Lab

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Students appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc. Goals: to teach students how disease characteristics and symptoms affect the spread of a disease through different populations to...

Interactional Scene Acting

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In Soc 43: Social Interaction, students design and act out interactional scenes to help them understand the concepts learned that week. Generally the students are divided into pairs or groups of three for these acting "games," which vary from week to week...

Cold War Simulation

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Students take part in a three day simulation of a cold war-era international crisis to experience the challenges of nuclear weapons decision-making and better understand the history of the Cold War. Goals: To give students a better appreciation for four...