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What is Playful Education

Chapter 15
Handbook of Research on Educational Design and Cloud Computing in Modern Classroom Settings
The result of a seamless integration of play and learning, under the general scope of game-based learning, that is mainly empowered by the usage or application of state-of-the-art technology and innovative narratives and storytelling.
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Playful Education and Innovative Gamified Learning Approaches
George P. Pavlidis (Athena Research Centre, Greece) and Stella Markantonatou (Athena Research Centre, Greece)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3053-4.ch015
Abstract
In the recent decades, there has been a significant investment in the incorporation of games in the educational practice. This has taken either the form of game-based learning or serious gaming. A literature review on gaming and education results in numerous works tackling different aspects of the approach. Even a simple search on the Web on gaming and learning produces multi-million results. In this work, we try to touch not only the surface of this approach and provide typical game-based learning evaluation results but also to explore its inner workings (offering a modest mixed philosophical and science aspect) and to provide an even more concrete foundation for a playful education.
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