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SecretsThe Game Is On
Excelsior College The Center for Game and Simulation-Based LearningWashington, D.C.16 May 2014
Lee SheldonAssociate Professor
Games and Simulation Arts and SciencesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Photograph courtesy of the CareHart Foundation
Secrets The Game Is On
Excelsior College The Center for Game and Simulation-Based LearningWashington, D.C.28 January 2014
Lee SheldonAssociate Professor
Games and Simulation Arts and SciencesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Photograph courtesy of the Chromogen Corporation
Secrets The Game Is On
Lee SheldonAssociate Professor
Games and Simulation Arts and SciencesRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Excelsior College The Center for Game and Simulation-Based LearningWashington, D.C.28 January 2014
Photograph courtesy of the CareHart Foundation
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This is not about a MOOC!
Here's some background…
Collateral learning occurs at the convergence of two distinct, undeniable forces:
and the human attributes of
that hunger for both.
storytellinggameplay
curiosity imagination
Introducing Collateral Learning
Gameplay
Tradition
“Good morning, you all have an F.”
“However you can all level up.”
We brought it. To the classroom.
Higher grades, better participation, better retention, almost perfect attendance.
Story
The Skeleton Chase
Skeleton Chase 2: The Psychic
Skeleton Chase 3: Warp Speed
Indiana University 2008-2009
The Lost ManuscriptRensselaer Polytechnic University 2011
Final exam:a police interrogation
Lost Manuscript 2: The Summer Palace CipherRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Emergent Reality Lab 2013
Well you can bet tonight it's raining in DublinIn the morning or the evening about the sameAnd thousands of miles awayI miss you more and more each dayBut the strangest thing is how I miss the rain... -Kevin McKrell
A New Land
These Far Hills
A New Land
Online
Gameplay + Story + Online
SecretsExcelsior College Fall 2014
“Greetings from the future! I tried for quite awhile to figure out how to open this video. I wanted to be impressive and welcoming. But when I finally said it on camera it sounded kind of silly. Oh well, hopefully you’re still watching!
My name is Audra Casey. And I am speaking to you from…get ready for it…the year 2084! I kid you not!”
The Collective
Video Script
Believe
Primal Empathy
“Primal Empathy or PE is a kind of psychic harmony that allows us to connect with one another, not really telepathic, but an ability to form a tight, instinctual empathetic bond that transcends national, cultural and racial differences.
If all humankind can learn to strongly identify with one another then hatred and war will be evils of the past.”
Video Script
“Hey there. So yeah, I expect you’ve seen The Collective’s peace and harmony speech. We heard they were going to try something radical. I guess that means we’re succeeding. They can’t defeat us in 2084, so they’ve reached back into the past to try and change the rules.”
Fortress 9
Video Script
Resist
“They probably painted a pretty rosy picture about how PE helps us to understand each other better, to walk in the next guy’s shoes, yeah? That’s actually kind of how it works with somebody else who’s also had their DNA “supplemented.” But what this has done is turn our world into the haves and have nots. Want all that good feeling directed at you? You better have had your DNA upgraded. Otherwise you might just get ignored.”
Video Script
Choose
Secrets: Gameplay, Story and Learning• Videos from the future?
• Primal Empathy?
• Research that was begun in our time?
• Are these really the questions that must be answered?
• There are secrets within secrets.
• Students must question what they are being told; learn about the nature of identity on the Internet; investigate web sites both real and fictional.
• Their investigations (research, solving puzzles) are tightly integrated with the curriculum of the class.
• Students will share their knowledge of the Internet with one another as they learn more, and as long as they trust each other…
• There are even secrets about their classmates…
Trust no one
Secrets OnlineTom Wetherall is a likable, intelligent member of the class who says he works for an Organic Health Food Company. He doesn’t. He is in fact one half of the hint system, and a character in the story (bad guy), controlled by the instructor and a teaching assistant.
Ann Bennett is another likable, intelligent student in the class. She is the other half of the hint system, a character in the story (FBI cybercop on the virtual trail of a dangerous conspiracy). Ann is also controlled by the instructor and a teaching assistant.
Together they drive discussion and the story.
Secrets
Collateral learning occurs at the convergence of two distinct, undeniable forces:
and the human attributes of
that hunger for both.
storytellinggameplay
curiosity imagination
Secrets
An online class that is also a narrative-driven game, deeply integrated with all aspects of curriculum and normal class interactions.
Students want to learn.
So they can discover the truth behind
Gameplay + Story + Online
Secrets
Secretsa new kind of online class
Thank you!Excelsior College Center for Game and Simulation-Based LearningWashington, D.C.16 May 2014
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