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International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications

SGDA 2012: Serious Games Development and Applications pp 231–242Cite as

AmbiLearn: Enhancing the Learning Environment for Primary School Education

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Technology is at a stage where it has infiltrated the education system with the potential to enhance teaching and learning. In Northern Ireland a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) infrastructure is in place. However, statistics and government reports suggest that VLE use amongst the primary school sector is quite limited. In an attempt to redress the limited use of VLEs in the primary school sector this research investigates the potential of serious games and how they may compliment the National Curriculum with the development of AmbiLearn, an enhanced learning environment with a content neutral game-based approach and content creation and reporting modules. This paper presents the design and implementation of AmbiLearn. Preliminary analysis of data from evaluation of AmbiLearn shows promising results and directions for future work are discussed.

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  1. School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland

    Jennifer Hyndman & Tom Lunney

  2. School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster, Magee, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland

    Paul Mc Kevitt

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  1. Glasgow School of Art, Digital Design Studio, The Hub Building, Pacific Quay, G51 1EA, Glasgow, UK

    Minhua Ma

  2. Sintef Technology and Society, Industrial Management, Sintef, Sluppen, P.O. Box 4760, 7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

  3. Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics, University of Bremen, High School Ring 20, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge , Heiko Duin  & Klaus-Dieter Thoben ,  & 

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Hyndman, J., Lunney, T., Mc Kevitt, P. (2012). AmbiLearn: Enhancing the Learning Environment for Primary School Education. In: Ma, M., Oliveira, M.F., Hauge, J.B., Duin, H., Thoben, KD. (eds) Serious Games Development and Applications. SGDA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33687-4_20

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