An Introductory Exploration Into Educational Gaming Trends During COVID School Closures

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Abstract

As schools began to transition students to distance learning in response to Covid, a natural experiment began to take shape. With this in mind, we embarked on an exploratory analysis of aggregate data to better understand high level changes for four educational games from the same design studio. Accounting for complexity, length, and amount of direction provided to students, we find indications that students were indeed playing more in terms of both frequency and length of session during the school closures as compared to 2019.

Authors

• Jennifer Scianna, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• John McCloskey

• Luke Swanson

• David Gagnon, University of Wisconsin - Madison