Accreditation! the responsive curriculum game
Forsyth, Rachel LU
; Whitton, Nicola
and Whitton, Peter
(2011)
5th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2011
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning
2011-January.
p.176-182
- Abstract
It can be difficult to engage colleagues with the findings and recommendations of an externally-funded project, even when, or perhaps particularly when, it has major implications for institutional processes. The authors were involved with a large single-institution Higher Education change project that aimed to make the university more responsive to changes in curriculum needs, the student voice, employer demands, and external legislative and political pressures. The task of working with stakeholders to disseminate project findings and explore the potential to rethink the course accreditation process was not an easy one, it being a dry subject at best. In addition to writing a standard project report, it was decided to adopt a game-based... (More)
It can be difficult to engage colleagues with the findings and recommendations of an externally-funded project, even when, or perhaps particularly when, it has major implications for institutional processes. The authors were involved with a large single-institution Higher Education change project that aimed to make the university more responsive to changes in curriculum needs, the student voice, employer demands, and external legislative and political pressures. The task of working with stakeholders to disseminate project findings and explore the potential to rethink the course accreditation process was not an easy one, it being a dry subject at best. In addition to writing a standard project report, it was decided to adopt a game-based approach as a novel means of engaging audiences. However, since budget was limited, and collaborative digital games are typically expensive to design and develop, it was decided to adopt a low-tech approach and develop a simple board game based on the findings of the project to help to engage colleagues. The game aims to help disseminate the principal findings of the project to staff, encourage discussion, and demonstrate how these findings relate to the key institutional process of course design and quality management. This paper provides an overview of the game developed and explains how the game mechanics were designed to link to the project findings and the intended learning outcomes and used to produce a low cost prototype of the game. The difficulties of retaining an analytical element with relatively short game play (30-45 minutes) and an attempt to make the process entertaining are discussed. The game was evaluated for its ability to generate discussion among university staffabout the project findings and their implications for the process, as well as for its playability, and the findings of this evaluation and recommendations for future development are explored.
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- author
- Forsyth, Rachel
LU
; Whitton, Nicola
and Whitton, Peter
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Board game, Curriculum design, Dissemination, Systems
- host publication
- Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2011
- series title
- Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning
- editor
- Meimaris, Michalis and Gouscos, Dimitris
- volume
- 2011-January
- pages
- 176 - 182
- publisher
- Dechema e.V.
- conference name
- 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2011
- conference location
- Athens, Greece
- conference dates
- 2011-10-20 - 2011-10-21
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:84938561855
- ISSN
- 2049-0992
- ISBN
- 9781908272188
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 2968a9c0-1f00-4346-b6b0-1b3a7916967c
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-02 15:15:47
- date last changed
- 2024-01-03 10:42:57
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