Exploring Patterns of Self Regulated Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Digital Games: A Case Study

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Short Description

The purpose of this study was to understand how digital games, which serve as an enabling context (Hannafin et al., 1999), impacted learners’ self-regulation (SR) and ill-structured problem solving (IPS) processes. With this purpose, we intended to capture the self-regulation and problem solving patterns of the participants while they were engaged in solving a public health problem in a city building in the context of a digital game. Preliminary findings showed that the games have affordances to foster self-regulation and iterated problem-solving through the immediate feedback provided to the participants for each solution generated.

Authors

• Contributor: Ali Ceyhun Muftuoglu, University of Oklahoma

• Presenter: Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma