Game-based learning environments: designing the collaborative learning processes

Resumo

The importance of Collaborative Games in education have been described in different scientific studies. However, designing a collaborative activity is not an easy task, it needs understanding and analyzing collaborative learning processes requiring a fine-grained sequential analysis of the group interaction in the context of learning goals. Several researchers in the area of collaborative work have considered the quality of the group outcome as a success criterion. Nevertheless, recent findings are giving more importance to the quality of the collaboration process itself. This paper presents a set of patterns includes aspects of the design of collaborative game, as well as of the evaluating and monitoring process. Also we describe a Collaborative Game design using these set of patterns as a method, which can be used in analyzing the interaction processes in a Collaborative Game Based Learning environment (CGBL).