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Development of on-line courses requires the use of appropriate educational philosophies that discourage rote learning and passive transfer of information from teacher to learner. This paper reports on the development, use and evaluation of two,...

Creation of complex educational software involves many differ-ent activities that include the use of appropriate educational ped-agogy, development of resources, software creation and author-ing. Some authors have argued that play is part of the...

This paper describes the development of the genetics component of an educational adventure game, Zadarh, aimed at addressing learning misconceptions in biology, in the context of the appropriate application of theories of learning, and reflects on...

Abstract: The paper is based on the research finding from a research project carried out between March and November 2003. The aim of the research was to ascertain whether the usage of computer games, designed with constructivism notions in mind,...

A situated learning environment exploring important diseases in the African context was designed. Designers worked closely with the Game Achievement model (GAM), designed to marry educational learning objectives and storytelling. To test the...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are designed to manage students and content and while some offer communication tools, few integrate applications to support constructivist learning environments or authentic tasks. These systems also often include...

This paper explores the theoretical and practical aspects involved in the development and deployment of a complex virtual learning space that includes industry standards of game development and communication technologies. In this virtual space ...

Interactive fiction (IF) appears to include both the adventure and role-playing games genres. However, Desilets (1999) defined interactive fiction as a "computer-based form of literature in which the reader plays the part of an important character,...

The Web is argued to be the next great technological tool to be used in the delivery of educational materials. The success of virtual classrooms will depend on a number of issues including pedagogy and the appropriate exploitation of technology....

In the late 1990's Noble in a series of papers, argues that the commodification of intellectual activity into intellectual capital resulted in the commodification of learning information. The Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) model was developed from...

The design and development of educational games requires an understanding of not only software and game design, but also of the associated educational theories. While many authors agree that learning can take place while playing games, more research ...

This publication deals with the formative testing of an educational 3D constructivist microworld designed to engage learners concerning serious diseases in the South African context. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used to...

A research instrument (questionnaire), based on the Game Object Model (GOM), is used by a team (4 participants) to evaluate one educational and seven commercial computer video game reviewed by GameSpot to be the best PC games for 2004. GOM...

This paper reflects on the role of the designer in the development of an educational game. The design was guided by a number of conceptual models, namely the Game Object Model (GOM) and Game Achievement Model (GAM). However, the designer brings a...

Two products of the Virtual Learning Spaces Project are demonstrated and include the game episodes entitled The Burning Ground and Food for Thought. The Burning Ground episode is designed to addresses epidemics or prevalent diseases important in the ...

Playing games is an important part of our social and mental development. The computer games industry has grown swiftly, notably on the Windows95 platform, over the past few years. The aims of this project were to: determine the types of games...

This research investigates the use of computer video games in teaching and learning of learners from disadvantaged communities and is guided by the design experiment/development research paradigm, which calls for a pragmatic epistemology that...

Many argue that the three most influential writers today are Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky. In Dreaming in the Middle Ages, Eco defines the phenomena of neomedievalism to confront pop-culture in a globalised corporate world – the...

The aim of the research was to undertake a baseline study to determine the use of electronic learning resources in Gauteng provincial schools. The baseline study used a survey instrument based on an e-maturity framework and is part of a larger...