Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model

Zhi Hong Chen; Tak Wai Chan

doi:10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36

Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model

Zhi Hong Chen, Tak Wai Chan

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Abstract

Game competition has promising potential to be a powerful pedagogical strategy. To maximize the benefits and alleviate its possible negative effects, a substitutive competition design is proposed in this paper. The substitutive competition is a kind of mirror competition, a competition of pet-styled virtual characters that represent learners' open learner models. An animal companion system, named My-Pet system, was implemented to realize such concept. A preliminary system evaluation was also conducted in an elementary school to examine the effect of the substitutive competition in the My-Pet system. The results revealed that the substitutive competition was helpful to students' increased motivation and time-on-task that further contributed to improved learning efficiency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008
Pages	124-131
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008 - Banff, AB, Canada Duration: 2008 Nov 17 → 2008 Nov 19

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Name	Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008

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Other	2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Banff, AB
Period	2008/11/17 → 2008/11/19

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Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
Software

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Chen, Z. H., & Chan, T. W. (2008). Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model. In Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008 (pp. 124-131). Article 4700742 (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008). https://doi.org/10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36

Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model. / Chen, Zhi Hong; Chan, Tak Wai.
Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008. 2008. p. 124-131 4700742 (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chen, ZH & Chan, TW 2008, Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model. in Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008., 4700742, Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008, pp. 124-131, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008, Banff, AB, Canada, 2008/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36

Chen ZH, Chan TW. Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model. In Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008. 2008. p. 124-131. 4700742. (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008). doi: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36

Chen, Zhi Hong ; Chan, Tak Wai. / Learning by substitutive Competition : Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model. Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008. 2008. pp. 124-131 (Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008).

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