Apr
4
The story behind the Professor Rob and Professor Tibia Gameplot narratives….
From July 2018 to January 2019 the Coventry University BEACONING team worked with two students from Coventry University Faculty of Art and Humanities: Vytautas Vasiliauskas, recent graduate in Fine Art & Illustration, and Rachael Till, first-year undergraduate in Animation and Illustration, with additional input from other staff at the University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL). The DMLL team have extensive expertise in innovation for playful and gameful learning and the process of game creation.
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Apr
3
In the early stages of BEACONING, Coventry University held an Exploratory Workshop with teachers from Howes Primary School to introduce gamification as an innovative teaching and learning strategy, and to create lesson scenarios to inform development of the BEACONING solution. This term, now in the mature stages of the BEACONING project, Coventry University provided a Dissemination Workshop at the University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab, for teachers from the school.
The workshop purpose was to demonstrate the latest developments of the BEACONING platform and provide hands-on tuition for participants to test the Accessabar features and Teacher Authoring areas of the platform for themselves. An initial meeting had already been held on-site at the school, with the Deputy Head teacher, to present the BEACONING solution and explore how it might best complement the school teaching approach.
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Apr
3
Games like “Match IT” helps in developing visual perception skills and cognitive skills such as categorization.
To view the minigame, click here
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Apr
3
Beaconing was used for creating geolocalized quests featuring an escape game in Paris, in the framework of the Integration Day of the BTS Logistique PROMOTRANS in September 2018. This integration day happened at the start of the school year and aims at getting new students acquainted with the institution and also at getting all students to know each other.
The activity proposed by ORT was organized with Promotrans in 4 steps:
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Apr
3
As the pilot draws to a close, we reflect on the milestones and outcomes from engagement over the past few months.
At Coventry University we have worked with academic staff from disciplines that include modern languages, business administration, computing, engineering & digital technologies and social & therapeutic horticulture to break through barriers that can obstruct access within this target group to innovative teaching and learning, and increase adoption of the BEACONING solution.
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