Teaching for Sustainability: Seminar on Serious Games

Beskrivning

As educators, how can we prepare students to tackle the complexity of sustainability challenges while providing support to navigate the emotional toll that these problems and their impacts may elicit? The use of a serious game may be one such pedagogical approach to address both needs.

A serious game is any intervention or simulation that integrates educational content, skills development, and learning outcomes into a game-like environment that promotes student engagement, critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. By combining game mechanics with pedagogical principles, serious games allow students to explore complex real-world issues, experience decision-making scenarios, and apply theoretical concepts in an interactive and inclusive learning environment.

During the seminar, we explored the following:

Introduced serious games as a pedagogical approach
Discussed the latest research and practice
Shared known examples and experiences at Lund University
Explored the possible use of a serious game in your own learning environments
The seminar was interactive, with participanted demoing the game Biodiversity Collage, as well as listen to presentations from practitioners and engage in discussion with colleagues.

Period	2023 nov. 21
Typ av evenemang	Seminarium
Plats	Lund, SverigeVisa på karta