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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EME6681
Tracking Number - 5308
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Current Status:
SCNS Liaison Notified of Graduate Council Approval - 2016-05-20
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Elective for C&I: IT. To GC. Repeatability needs clarificatoin. Emailed 5/12/16. Not Repeatable. Approved 5/20/16 To Sys 5/20/16. To SCNS after 5/27/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2015-10-22
- Department: Educational and Psychological Studies (EPS)
- College: ED
- Budget Account Number: 0-1715-000
- Contact Person: Glenn Gordon Smith
- Phone: 8136930507
- Email: glenns@usf.edu
- Prefix: EME
- Number: 6681
- Full Title: Games Analytics for Learning
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: P -
Individual Performance Instruction
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: Y
- If repeatable, how many times?: 2
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Games Analytics for Learning
- Course Online?: U -
Face-to-face, online, and blended (separate sections)
- Percentage Online: 50
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: EME 6880
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Students first learn theory & practice of game analytics, i.e., using games to gather data for assessment of learning; then fine-tune a game with iterative cycles of formative evaluation & revision; and finally gather a data set & analyze it.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed to compete with national trends
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This is an elective, but not a required course, for the Masters Program in Instructional Technology. It will be a required course for a to be proposed certificate in Educational Games.
Game analytics is a new and growing area for data gathering and research in education/learning, business, and other areas. However, there are no game analytics course in Florida, and probably not in the country.
This course can supply graduate students with valuable knowledge which can help them conduct research and get cutting edge jobs.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD in instructional technology, or related field, or a PhD in Computer Science. Some knowledge and experience with computer game design and with data analysis is needed.
- Objectives: 1. Learn about game analytics
2. Conduct an iterative process of formative evaluation and game revisions
3. Plan and stage gathering data from a game
4. Analyze data from one or more games
5. Interpret data from one or more games, and then write and present about the data
- Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course, students will be able to:
Understand key theoretical and practical ideas about game analytics.
Conduct a formative evaluation on games.
Plan logistics for gathering data with a computer game, including details of setting (online or face to face), participants, the creation of other necessary instruments
Gather meaningful data with computer games
Meaningfully analyze data from computer games
Write coherent short summaries about data obtained from computer games
- Major Topics: 1. Principles of game analytics
2. Improving games through cycles of formative evaluation & revision
3. Logistics of data gathering using games
4. Hands on experience with gathering data with games
5. Analysis of data from games
- Textbooks: Selected papers, and online resources, such as:
Halverson, R., & Owen, E.V. (2013). Game-based assessment: an integrated model for capturing evidence of learning in play, International Journal of Learning Technology, 9(2), 111-138.
Books:
eBook: Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data, editors: El-Nasr, Drachen, & Canossa, Springer-Verlag London 2013
Also the book:
Serious Games Analytics: Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement
Christian Sebastian Loh, Yanyan Sheng, & Dirk Ifenthaler, 2015, Springer, ISBN
9783319058344
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: Software: Students will use and extend games developed by students in the course EME 6680 Game Design & Development for Learning, so the software that was used to develop the games in EME 6680 may be required for this course.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Seminar style discussion on course readings, and presentation 10%
Weekly assignments 10%
Formative evaluation: formative testing reports on existing game and/or revisions of game 20%
Arranging logistics for game analytics study: setting (online or face to face), participants, 10%
Data gathering 10%
Data analysis 20%
Final write up & presentation 20%
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Seminar style discussion on course readings
Weekly assignments
Formative evaluation: formative testing reports on existing game and/or revisions of game
Arranging logistics for game analytics study: setting (online or face to face), participants, IRB if necessary, creating other necessary intruments
Data gathering
Data analysis
Final write up
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http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
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- Policy on Make-up Work: Re-submissions will be allowed, if the original grade is less than an A, and the students re-submit within three weeks of the original due date, but no resubmissions are allowed within three weeks of the end of the semester.
- Program This Course Supports: Master in Instructional Technology, and the Educational Games certificate, the course may also be useful for the PhD in Instructional Technology
- Course Concurrence Information: Potentially, Masters in Computer Science or related, Information Systems, and fine arts.
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.