Abstract Educational escape rooms (EERs) are live-action, team-based games used to teach content-related and generic knowledge and skills. Instead of students just playing the EER, we believed that giving them the opportunity to create their own EERs would augment the learning efects of this teaching …

The current study investigated how individual differences among children affect the added value of social robots for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary to young children. Specifically, we investigated the moderating role of three individual child characteristics deemed relevant for language learning: …

Background There is a strong need for evidence based, effective continuous professional development (CPD) for physical education teachers. This need includes CPD aimed at impacting student motivation. Existing CPD on teachers’ motivating style often takes the form of singular events such as a workshop …

The objective of this research paper is to identify how the experience of character customization can be improved for trans and gender diverse individuals. Diversity and inclusion has become an important topic in today 's digital games. Though, games containing character customization often only offer …

Short presentation sharing our in-progress results and insights for the design and development of digital interactive narratives for assertiveness education in nursing curricula.

This research paper is about optimizing open-world museum applications and maximizing their efficiency on low-end devices. The paper is commissioned by a gaming company Tag of Joy, to streamline the onboarding of junior artists by creating a game optimization guide that contains information about the …

This thesis was built upon the agreement of graduating based on a portfolio. As such, it goes in great detail to prove the author 's required competences and qualify them for graduation. The proof involves primarily work that the author has done in service of his own company in the past five years prior …

BACKGROUND: Approximately 5%-10% of elementary school children show delayed development of fine motor skills. To address these problems, detection is required. Current assessment tools are time-consuming, require a trained supervisor, and are not motivating for children. Sensor-augmented toys and machine …

This paper aims to present a systematic literature review on state-of-the-art Educational Escape Rooms (EERs) with the use of digital technologies. More specifically, the focus of the study is to present the current developments and trends concerning Digital Educational Escape Rooms (DEERs) and investigate …

In CMD-onderwijs staat doen centraal: bedenken, conceptualiseren, ontwerpen, maken, uitproberen… Als student combineer je zo je kennis met vaardigheden en gedrag en ben je concreet bezig met je beroep. Tegelijkertijd is je het leerproces behoorlijk abstract: het is moeilijk te bepalen hoe ver je bent, …