Abstract
In recent years designing a game for education has become very popular. Neuroscience has developed many theories of learning, based on how brain learns. We discuss a design approach for conventional teaching methods. The proposed approach illustrates the opportunities to exploit the concept of neuroscience and combine it with game for educational purpose. The pedagogies based on neuroscience and psychology have been adapted in teaching very well and the same is expected to work well with Game Based Learning (GBL).
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Bajaj, N., Bellotti, F., Berta, R., De Gloria, A. (2016). A Neuroscience Based Approach to Game Based Learning Design. In: Bottino, R., Jeuring, J., Veltkamp, R. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10056. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50182-6_41
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