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(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
Miranda Verswijvelen's doctoral thesis on narrative design in branching scenarios (which she calls "interactive stories for learning" for clarity). Using techniques from game design, she created a framework for writing better scenarios.
The expert advice emphasised the pivotal role of emotions and player self-expression in crafting interactive narrative, along with the importance of designing believable characters and meaningful choices. A comprehensive heuristics framework to craft ISL was developed based on the insights from this phase. Through iterative prototyping and reflection, the heuristics framework was evaluated and refined, and subsequently applied to the recrafting of a virtual patient for compassion training
While no statistically significant differences for narrative transportation were found, the results from the playthrough data and open-ended questions demonstrated that incorporating emotional depth into virtual patient design significantly impacted learner engagement and empathy. Participants exhibited more compassionate care when interacting with the recrafted virtual patient, showing highly improved decision-making to promote patient outcomes.
1/21/25#branchingscenarios#instructionaldesign#writing#games
·researchgate.net·
(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
Recordings - From Instructional Design to Dungeons & Dragons
Recordings - From Instructional Design to Dungeons & Dragons
The recordings from the TLDC event "From Instructional Design to Dungeons & Dragons" are now available on their website and YouTube. This was a wonderful and deeply nerdy event. Early on in the planning, Luis wondered if there were really enough D&D players to make an event like this possible, and it's clear there were plenty of folks interested. If you're curious about the connection between games and learning, check it out, even if you've never played D&D before.
Imported from Diigo#instructionaldesign#games
·thetldc.com·
Recordings - From Instructional Design to Dungeons & Dragons
Designing game-inspired narratives for learning
Designing game-inspired narratives for learning
Conference paper by Miranda Verswijvelen, Ricardo Sosa, and Nataly Martini on what we can learn from how game designers write narratives and apply that to scenario-based learning.
This study turns for guidance to the expertise of narrative designers for games, where storytelling for interactive narrative has a long history of testing, iterating and perfecting. A collection of proven techniques described by game narrative practitioners will inform creative writing efforts to craft prototypes to test the transferability of those techniques to interactive narratives in a healthcare education context.
Imported from Diigo#instructionaldesign#writing#branching#games#scenario
·researchgate.net·
Designing game-inspired narratives for learning
Curatr - Motivate your learners to truly engage with online learning
Curatr - Motivate your learners to truly engage with online learning
Tool for curating existing resources in a gamified learning experience. Lets learners explore resources at their own pace but with some structure from levels, badges, etc. Learners can comment on resources and discuss with each other. The free edition doesn't allow uploads, but you can link to content elsewhere online. The teacher edition has limited uploading but is still free for teachers. The corporate version is has more features but is costly.
Imported from Diigo#instructionaldesign#curation#games#sociallearning#gamification#elearning
·curatr.co.uk·
Curatr - Motivate your learners to truly engage with online learning
Innovate: A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students
Innovate: A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students

The author calls this a new learning theory combining behaviorism & cognitivism. I see a new instructional design model that combines elements from a number of different sources, but I'm not sure I see a new learning theory. The model seems very complex; how long would you have to work with this before you internalized all the separate parts of the model?

Student results were better using this model. However, the control group was tested before doing a roleplaying game and the experimental groups did the game prior to testing. This could just show that roleplaying helps students understand characters in the Aeneid. Free registration required.

With its inclusion of <a href="javascript:open_win('extra.php?id=3158',650,750,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,5,'extra');">game elements</a>, which foster attention, memory, and motivation, SCCS provides a bridge between behaviorist and cognitivist learning theories.
SCCS learning theory focuses on the formation of <a href="javascript:open_win('extra.php?id=3011',650,775,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,5,'extra');">schemata</a> in the process of learning, particularly <a href="javascript:open_win('extra.php?id=3206',600,625,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,5,'extra');">social-connectedness</a> and <a href="javascript:open_win('extra.php?id=3207',600,375,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,5,'extra');">cognitive-connectedness</a> schemata.
Students engage their social-connectedness schema in a set of behaviors that I describe as “link, lurk, and lunge”: Students <em>link</em> up with others who have the knowledge they need; they <em>lurk</em>, watching others who know how do to what they want to do; and they<em> lunge</em>, jumping in to try new things often without seeking guidance beforehand (Brown 2000).
The cognitive-connectedness schema structures a student's ability and desire to know how what they are learning connects to a larger picture.
Imported from Diigo#learningtheories#instructionaldesign#technology#education#k-12#games
·innovateonline.info·
Innovate: A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students
Systems thinking and innovation | effectivedesign.org
Systems thinking and innovation | effectivedesign.org
Live blogged notes from AECT about systems thinking, innovation, and games for learning. Lots of side comments too, including some good connections to instructional design and getting too bogged down in multiple theories.
This is exactly what has happened to instructional design, and could by <a href="http://effectivedesign.org/2008/02/11/instructional-design-in-academia-where-theory-and-practice-rarely-meet/">why theory and practice don’t meet</a>. <strong>So much theory has been introduced that we can no longer see how instruction is actually designed.</strong> That’s why I think many times it has become easier for novice (in this case non-academically trained) designers can do it so often. They are not encumbered by the fog of theory.
Imported from Diigo#instructionaldesign#theory#change#games#scaffolding#education#elearning
·effectivedesign.org·
Systems thinking and innovation | effectivedesign.org
growing changing learning creating: Building bridges to gamers
growing changing learning creating: Building bridges to gamers
You may have noticed three separate islands where you work. There's an island of senior executives with their top-down, bottom line, control-freak approach to the other islands. There's a far away island of gamers thriving on fun challenges and immersive gameplay. In between, there's an island of trainers, instructional designers and content developers struggling to reach out to both of the other islands.
Imported from Diigo#games#instructionaldesign#orgculture#simulation
·growchangelearn.blogspot.com·
growing changing learning creating: Building bridges to gamers