Overview
What if instead of pictures, tables, and charts, research or articles would use small embedded interactive games?
In this pilot, we continue our work on creating a library of tiny educational games that would be embedded within written text, just like videos or images. We also run online workshops where teachers and researchers can create their own tiny games for educational purposes, to further explore the notion of embedded tiny games for communication.
Pedagogical methods
As part of the pilot, we are updating our website with tutorials, moddable games and educational content for teachers and researchers to use, as well as creating online workshops for Aalto staff, researchers, doctoral students and other members of the A!OLE community.
Tutorials for game making are available on the project website: https://playableconcepts.aalto.fi/tutorials/
Involved courses
Online workshops will be held during Spring 2021.
Links & Materials
Project website:
https://playableconcepts.aalto.fi/
Publications and news (from 2019-2020 pilot):
Annakaisa Kultima, Christina Lassheikki, Solip Park, and Tomi Kauppinen. 2020. Playable Concepts: Exploring Embedded Games for Education, Communication and Illustration. DiGRA 2020. Available as .PDF in the DiGRA Digital Library.
Annakaisa Kultima, Christina Lassheikki, and Solip Park. 2020. Playable (research) concepts workshop: translating your topics into tiny games. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Academic Mindtrek (AcademicMindtrek ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 165–167. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3377290.3377321
“Initiating Playable Concepts” – on the Playable Concepts pilot 2019 – 2020, in the Aalto Online Learning blog: https://onlinelearning.aalto.fi/aol/blog/news/7258-playable-concepts-initiating-tiny-embedded-educational-games
People
Annakaisa Kultima
School of Art, Design and Architecture, Medialab
Pilot leader
Solip Park
School of Art, Design and Architecture, Medialab
Doctoral Student
Christina Lassheikki
School of Art, Design and Architecture, Medialab
Research Assistant
