Comments on: Games as model for grading http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/03/19/games-as-model-for-grading/ learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:56:23 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Podcast Episode 08 – Level Up in class | EdTechPodcast.com http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/03/19/games-as-model-for-grading/comment-page-1/#comment-47120 Podcast Episode 08 – Level Up in class | EdTechPodcast.com Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:47:25 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4679#comment-47120 [...] Games as model for grading [...] [...] Games as model for grading [...]

]]> By: Things I Learned This Week – #13 | dougbelshaw.com/blog http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/03/19/games-as-model-for-grading/comment-page-1/#comment-46359 Things I Learned This Week – #13 | dougbelshaw.com/blog Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:51:04 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4679#comment-46359 [...] video game-style ‘experience points’ instead of grades in school? <strokes beard> [...] [...] video game-style ‘experience points’ instead of grades in school? <strokes beard> [...]

]]> By: Games as model for grading?{W11:Mar15-21} « SHUAI's Blog http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/03/19/games-as-model-for-grading/comment-page-1/#comment-44989 Games as model for grading?{W11:Mar15-21} « SHUAI's Blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:49:51 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4679#comment-44989 [...] saw a interesting topic today from George Siemens‘ blog. He had an idea about “why not use a game model as a replacement for grading?” (click the link to see his original post). Basically, he has a thought on a fare model about [...] [...] saw a interesting topic today from George Siemens‘ blog. He had an idea about “why not use a game model as a replacement for grading?” (click the link to see his original post). Basically, he has a thought on a fare model about [...]

]]> By: Tony Gonzalez http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/03/19/games-as-model-for-grading/comment-page-1/#comment-44724 Tony Gonzalez Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:07:37 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4679#comment-44724 I like motivation for the idea, but as long as the experience cap is 100 and students can only level for a single semester before being reset to "level 0", is there really any difference from starting at 100 points and applying an experience penalty for failing (or only partially completing) "quests", a la old school EverQuest? (Recall that the serious penalties for failing at difficult challenges in EQ was one of the big reasons that players quickly defected from that game and flocked to WoW, which was much more forgiving of failure, and thus makes players more willing to take risks and explore.) I think that a much more interesting model would be to allow students to roam freely in the provided environment, picking up quests and advancing levels at their own pace and as the urge takes them, leveling freely. Such is not likely to occur within the educational systems that we currently have, but maybe when some educational equivalent of WoW appears... I like motivation for the idea, but as long as the experience cap is 100 and students can only level for a single semester before being reset to “level 0″, is there really any difference from starting at 100 points and applying an experience penalty for failing (or only partially completing) “quests”, a la old school EverQuest? (Recall that the serious penalties for failing at difficult challenges in EQ was one of the big reasons that players quickly defected from that game and flocked to WoW, which was much more forgiving of failure, and thus makes players more willing to take risks and explore.)

I think that a much more interesting model would be to allow students to roam freely in the provided environment, picking up quests and advancing levels at their own pace and as the urge takes them, leveling freely. Such is not likely to occur within the educational systems that we currently have, but maybe when some educational equivalent of WoW appears…

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