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Recommendations to Leverage Game-Based Learning to Attract Young Talent to Manufacturing Education

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Serious Games (JCSG 2017)

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This paper addresses the problem of under-representation of young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education in general, and manufacturing education in particular, as European and global phenomenon. The main objective is to analyse characteristics and different limitations of so called conventional initiatives to attract young talents to STEM and manufacturing and to furthermore propose how ICT and game-based learning approaches can address respective challenges. The paper presents an online serious game EcoFactory aimed at raising the awareness of sustainable manufacturing targeting young children in late primary and middle school. It furthermore provides lessons learnt from the evaluation of the EcoFactory and proposes recommendations for designing game-based initiatives in order to attract young talent to STEM and manufacturing education. They are aligned to the requirements of four target groups, i.e. game designers, STEM initiative designers, decision makers and teachers. In summary, game design should be based on pedagogical scenarios and co-creation processes; should focus on particular STEM subjects without causing major changes to school curricula and content; and should create and/or involve wider community with feedback and experience sharing mechanisms.

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This work was partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 723737.

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  1. Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Gregor Cerinšek

  2. SINTEF, Strindveien 4, 7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Oliveira

  3. BIBA-Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Hochschulring 20, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Heiko Duin & Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  4. KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Mariekällgatan 3, 15181, Södertälje, Sweden

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  5. HighSkillz, 27 Wessex Gardens, London, NW11 9RS, UK

    Maria Margoudi

  6. Politecnico di Milano, Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering Milan, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Perini & Marco Taisch

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  1. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Mariano Alcañiz

  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  3. Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

    Minhua Ma

  4. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

  5. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  6. Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Tim Marsh

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Cerinšek, G. et al. (2017). Recommendations to Leverage Game-Based Learning to Attract Young Talent to Manufacturing Education. In: Alcañiz, M., Göbel, S., Ma, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_18

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