13 Principles of Good Learning in Games — Applied to Teaching

Table of Contents

• • Preface: Why this eBook?

• SPOILER: Empower learners with good problems that reveal systems

• Theme 1: Empower Learners

• • 1: Co-Design — Let them co-design learning experiences
  • 2: Customize — Let them make it their own
  • 3: Identity — Let them try different roles
  • 4: Manipulation — Let them try things

• Theme 2: Use Good Problems

• • 5: Well-Ordered Problems — Scaffold their learning
  • 6: Pleasantly Frustrating — Challenge them
  • 7: Cycle of Expertise — Make them practice
  • 8: Just-in-Time and On-Demand — Let them learn when ready
  • 9: Fish tank — Simplify complex systems
  • 10: Sandboxes — Provide safe places to explore systems
  • 11: Skills as Strategies — Apply skills to solve problems

• Theme 3: Reveal Systems

• • 12: Systems Thinking — Encourage model-based reasoning
  • 13: Meaning as Action — Situate meanings through experience

• Apply to Your Course

• • Appendix 1: Another Way of Looking at These