work done in eMadrid during the last 4 years and what are we working now for the next 4 years

1. Educational Technology: 4 years back, 4
years ahead
e-UCM Research Group
Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon, balta@fdi.ucm.es , @BaltaFM
e-UCM research group, www.e-ucm.es

2. eMadrid: initial goals
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3. About e-UCM
‣ Research group about Learning technologies
• 15 researchers
Topics
• Serious games
- Application to the medical domain
• e-learning and educational standards
• Learning analytics
• Digital humanities (games and theater)
• Accessibility in games
• Creation of educational tools as open source
• www.e-ucm.es
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4. Internationalization
• European projects
- FP7 Network of Excelence in Serious Games, GALA
- LLP Serious Games Network, SEGAN
- LLP CHERMUG
• National and regional projects
• Cooperation with leader research groups in the world
(e.g MGH-Harvard University)
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5. eAdventure game platform
Open code authoring environment for the production of point-and-click
adventure games & immersive learning simulations
No programming required and easy to include Learning Analytics in
eAdventure games
e-adventure.e-ucm.es

6. eAdventure
‣ Mature tool
‣ Downloads from more tan 160 countries
‣ Multilingual (including chinese and now hindi)
‣ Include accessibility aspects in the games
‣ Facilitate deployment and assessment: integration
with e-Learning environments (e.g. Moodle)
‣ Standard compliance (SCORM, IMS)
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7. eAdventure
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sec. education healthcare accessibility language training
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e-adventure

8. Game development approach
Torrente et at (2014) Development of Game-Like Simulations for Procedural Knowledge in Heathcare
Education. IEEE Transactions on Learning Tecnologies. 7(1), 69-82

9. http://www.chermug.eu
First visit to OR, with UCMhttp://first-aid-game.e-ucm.es
With ONT, educ@ONT

10. Games for English practice
Download from www.e-ucm.es or from CATEDU
http://descargaterecursos.wordpress.com/e-adventures/

11. Evaluation of technologies
‣ Not only developing technology and content
‣ Design and run formal experiments with actual users
• Medical students (university)
• Medical personnel (hospitals)
• Students (schools)
‣ Data analysis
‣ Publication
• Journals

12. Learning analytics and SG
The NMC Horizon Report:
2013 Higher Education
Edition
‣ new and emerging
technologies on
teaching, learning, and
research
Time-to-Adoption
Horizon: Two to Three
Years
‣ Games and
Gamification
‣ Learning Analytics
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http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed

13. GLEANER
‣ GLEANER: Game Learning Analytics for education
research
• Open code framework to capture game traces
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Reference model in the EU NoE GALA
http://e-ucm.github.io/gleaner/

14. eAdventure 2.0
New versión of eAdventure developped from scratch
with new technology
‣ https://github.com/e-ucm/ead/
‣ http://www.e-ucm.es/ead2blog/

15. eAdventure 2.0 - Technologies
Deployment platforms
Communication
Learning
Analytics
xAPI

16. eAdventure 2.0 - Main goals
• Easy creation and deployment of state-of-the-art
games
• Interoperability
• Multiple formats and devices

17. eAdventure 2.0 - Main goals (2)
• Easy integration of educational features
o Easy configuration of gamification features
o In-Game Assessment
o Integration with Learning Analytics
o Communication of results through standards
(xAPI)
Learning
Analytics

18. Focus on open games and reusability
(1) Build a community of practitioners to share and
reuse games
• Creating a game resources is expensive
• Top quality requires experience and qualified professionals

19. New standards: xAPI
‣ Collaborating with ADL Co-Lab
‣ Tracks experiences, informal learning, real-
world experiences (not just completions)
‣ Allows data storage AND retrieval (ex. 3rd
party reporting and analytics tools)
‣ Enables tracking mobile, games, ITS, and
virtual worlds experiences
‣ Developed by open source community
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From Damon Regan (ADL) presentation at SINTICE2013

20. New application domains
‣ Integration of serious games in MOOCs
• Serious games as exercises in MOOCs
‣ Digital humanities
• Games for cultural promotion and preservation
• New game about “La cortesía de España” in
collaboration with the “Compañía de Nacional de Teatro
Clasico”
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21. Thank you!
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balta@fdi.ucm.es
@BaltaFM
Slides will be available at
http://slideshare.net/BaltasarFernandezManjon