It’s Better to Enjoy Learning than Playing: Motivational Effects of an Educational Live Action Role-playing Game

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/19:10420083 RIV/00216208:11210/19:10420083

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/article/view/459" target="_blank" >https://journals.sfu.ca/flr/index.php/journal/article/view/459</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14786/flr.v7i3.459" target="_blank" >10.14786/flr.v7i3.459</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

It’s Better to Enjoy Learning than Playing: Motivational Effects of an Educational Live Action Role-playing Game

Original language description

Game-based learning is supposed to motivate learners. However, to what degree does motivation driven by interest in playing an instructional game affect learning outcomes compared to motivation driven by interest in the very learning process? This is not known. In this study with a unique design and intervention, young adults (N = 128, a heterogeneous sample) learned how to control an electro-mechanical device in a 40-minute-long learning session integrated into a 2-hour-long educational live action role-playing game (edu-LARP). Edu-LARPs are supposedly engaging games where players take part in team role-playing by physically enacting characters in a fictional universe. In our edu-LARP, players had to understand how the to-be-learned device worked in order to win the game. Departing from typical game-based learning research, learning- and playing-related variables were assessed for each learner separately (i.e., a within-subject design). Affective-motivational factors related to playing (rather than learning) predicted learning outcomes in a positive, but considerably weaker, way compared to learning-related, affective-motivational factors. Developed interest in LARP-like games was primarily related to enjoying the game rather than better learning outcomes, whereas, developed interest in the instructional domain was primarily related to enjoyment of learning and better learning outcomes. Overall, autonomous motivation to play was connected to higher learning outcomes, but this connection was weak.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-14715S" target="_blank" >GA15-14715S: Linking Higher State Engagement to Acquisition of Better Mental Models</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontline Learning Research

ISSN

2295-3159

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

64-90

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