The Case of Literacy Motivation: Playful 3D Immersive Learning Environments and Problem-Focused Education for Blended Digital Storytelling

The Case of Literacy Motivation: Playful 3D Immersive Learning Environments and Problem-Focused Education for Blended Digital Storytelling

Stylianos Mystakidis, Eleni Berki
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/IJWLTT.2018010105
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Abstract

The University of Patras' Library Services designed and offered to primary and secondary schools the pilot educational program “From the Ancient to the Modern Tablets”, featuring immersive multimedia learning experiences about the book history. The pilot program consisted of three stages: a playful library tour, followed by an interactive game-based digital storytelling activity with game elements, and a collaborative creative reflective hands-on activity. Utilizing the avatar psychology power, the visualization and simulation affordances of 3D immersive learning environments and the appeal of storytelling and game-based learning, the “gamified” blended narrative on the book evolution enabled learning as problem-focused, embedded and context-generated. An additional research study was conducted to investigate teachers opinions regarding the effectiveness of the 3D Virtual Immersive Environment(s); this focused on students' learning and thinking skills in the socio-cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain. This work exposes the pedagogical design, presents the socio-technical development and reflects on the initial research findings.
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2. Theoretical Background

In this section, there is an exposure of our main theoretical terms and pedagogical design concepts. Thus sections 2.1-2.4 outline the conceptual essence and personal motivation to aim at constructing this type of pedagogical instrument that mainly targets at historical events’ finding and understanding. The whole research study has been carried out in an experimental, rather unusual, but yet innovative and effective way, which revealed interesting conceptual pedagogical aspects of problem-focused education and enquiry-based learning.

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