WP4

Engagement tools for tutors

and learners in a HE online
learning environment

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 AGENDA
● WP4 quick overview
● ECORE a Serious Game creator: what is and why
● How it works?
● Main features
● Empowering accessibility: updates – to be defined

● Train the trainer – Patras: a proposal

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Wp4 Overview
WP4 What? When? How? Where?

Teaser - ECORE editor update + manual & guidelines + video teaser Sept-Oct 2023 Documents/video On line
preparation
Training Course Training course (40h) for tutors and students Nov-Dic 2023 • Asyncronous acitivies + Project
Introduction to Serious Game video lesson: 14 hours Platform
• How to write a Serious Game story • Syncronous: 3 sessions,
• The Serious Game editor 2h each
• Project work • Project work: 20 hours
Implementation • 5 groups (1 each country), Jan-May 2024 Organized by each country Blended or on
• 5 Serious Game, 2 follow up by EKN on line line
• 2 follow up to support the development of the stories (decide by
each partner)
Local ME • Hybrid conference March 2024 Romania + on
• Presentation activities' results line
• Feedback from stakeholders and partners
Guidelines • Manuals – Toolkit June 2024 Tutorial Platform/web
• guidelines to create digital tools (SG) and to support the Documents site
engagement of the student in online activities Video teaser On line

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 ECORE engine:
a Serious Game creator

allows professor/educators to
transform subjects/contents in an
interactive digital simulation
(Serious Game)

no IT development
skills required
 ECORE Serious Game

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 Serious Game in didactis: why? (in brief)
● are digital simulation in which students put to the test and train
knowledge and skill related to a subject,
● are meant to let them fail in a safe environment.
● allows students to collect feedbacks on taken decisions,
● engage students/participants to try again to overcome the
challenge (trial and error learning paradigm)

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 ECORE Main structure
● choose language
stage 1 ● define game goals
● scenario’s description
● title
● steps up to 20
● crossroads up to 4 for each step
stage 2 ● score from 0 to 10
● debriefing chart – 8 levels
● qualitative comments

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 Upload and choose

background avatar
avatar objects

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ambienti

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 Upload
● up to 5 different contents each step

objects

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 Objects upload – embedded view
● images - most popular formats: png, jpg
● videos - most popular formats: mp4, ogg, webm
● PDF documents
● Youtube videos
● links to Wordwall platform

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Debriefing chart: professor’s view

- 8 score ranges
- a qualitative
comments each
range (professor’s
feedback)

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Match analytics: student’s view
75%

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 Interoperability
ECORE is a web-based software that can be integrated with any
LMS platform (Moodle, Blackboard) that uses Learning Tools
Interoperability (LTI) protocols.

LTI standard is a communication protocol created to facilitate the

exchange of information between training platforms and other
educational tools.

ECORE is a tool provider capable of transmitting data to any LMS

compatible with the LTI standard. The data refers to users and
games played (scores, time, number of attemps)

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ECORE updates for D-ChallengHE:
improving accessibility

- Font Dyslexia friendly,

- embed more fonts if needed
- audio dub for player options
- bakgrounds compatible with screen reader

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 ECORE engine: main purposes
- tool for deploy contents in a
- tool to make flipped classroom
challenging and engaging way to
happen: Co-designed by students
enhance students motivation and
learnings

- evaluate the level of - self evaluation: help students to be

understandings – on going needs aware on skill/knowledge level.

analysis

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application context

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 Train the trainer Patras – September 22nd
First Scenario: 4h Second Scenario: All day

- ECORE how to, main technical - ECORE how to, main technical
features features
- ECORE theoretical framework: - ECORE theoretical framework:
constructionsim (Piaget) and constructionsim (Piaget) and
constructivism (Papert) constructivism (Papert)
- ECORE methodology: how to - ECORE methodology: how to
set up a Serious Game set up a Serious Game
- Best practice: analyse a serious - Hands on: co-design a new SG
game storyboard Storyboard in subgroups

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 Open Questions/Concerns
- Topics for the Serious Games
- ECORE embedded in the project platform/server
- WP4 Learning course - 40h (20 hours + 20 hours workshop)
- Co-design a Serious Game takes time… (partners +
participants)

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 BENEFICIARIES
Total of 125

5 Universities

20 students + 5 tutors each

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5 activities

The expected
results are:
1. Documents
2. Skills
development
3. Digital tools

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 Learning Course: a proposal

Groups pax each group Synchronous meetings hours/meeting Asynchronous hours PW hours TOT

ITA 25 3 2 14 20 40
GR 25 3 2 14 20 40
SLO 25 3 2 14 20 40
LITUANIA 25 3 2 14 20 40
ROMANIA 25 3 2 14 20 40

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 Serious Game design: TBD
● https://padlet.com/Entropykn/8jo0kcgrbod6cofc

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