Adapting Game-based Learning Environments to Reflect Learners' Emotions and Autonomy while Reading

• In Event: Games and Learning

Short Description

This session will present research from a study which examined the effect of autonomy on learning while learners read informational text within a game-based learning environment (GBLE), CRYSTAL ISLAND. Results indicated those with limited autonomy learned more than those with full autonomy. Learners afforded full autonomy exhibited greater joy, anger, confusion, and frustration evidence scores than those with restricted autonomy. Implications for designing GBLEs to account for emotions and autonomy simultaneously will be discussed.

Authors

• Presenter: Daryn Dever, University of Central Florida

• Contributor: James Lester, North Carolina State University

• Presenter: Roger Azevedo, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research