Casper Harteveld

Building Blocks for Game Design and Learning

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Produktbeschreibung

In Building Blocks for Game Design and Learning, Casper Harteveld relates existing learning theories to best practices in game design, exploring how each of the three views of knowing-behaviorist, cognitivist, and situative-illuminate the process of learning through gaming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780415838634
• ISBN-10: 0415838630
• Artikelnr.: 41361634

Autorenporträt

Casper Harteveld is Assistant Professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: A Design Perspective
Chapter 1: To Game is to Learn
Chapter 2: Designers (Should) Learn Too
Chapter 3: Designing with Gamelets
Part II: A Behaviorist Perspective
Chapter 4: The Pavlov Response to Games
Chapter 5: Player Practice Makes Perfect
Chapter 6: A Game Evaluates the Player
Part III: A Cognitivist Perspective
Chapter 7: Reasoning about Games
Chapter 8: Understand the Experience
Chapter 9: Understanding Needs Reflection
Part IV: A Situative Perspective
Chapter 10: Playing in a Community
Chapter 11: Develop into an Expert
Chapter 12: Guide the Player to Wisdom
Epilogue: Beyond this Book and Games