Environmental Scan of Educational Games for Medical Education. Arthur Lau

Educational games are digital learning resources that have the potential to/that are postulated to support the acquisition of knowledge, skills and behaviour. This is specifically applicable to medical education as they can provide a safe virtual environment where students and trainees can practice clinical reasoning and decision making. Although the commercial landscape of educational games is wide, it is unclear what proportion of available games are suitable for or based around medical education. This presentation will describe a study to better understand the educational games landscape in regard to: 1) commercially available games; and 2) the design features contained with them, this study employed an environmental scan methodology, across five areas: 1) online game databases, 2) search engines, 3) educational book publishers, 4) mobile application stores and 5) experts in the field of educational games. . Recorded at the Centre for Research in Digital Education research symposium (May 2019). For more information, see: https://crde.leeds.ac.uk/

Arthur Lau

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