TimeMesh – a serious game for european citizenship

• Autor(es): Baptista, Ricardo ; Carvalho, Carlos Vaz de
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3419
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Assunto(s): Serious games; Game-based learning; Adventure games; History; Europe
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Serious games are games where the entertainment aspect is not the most relevant motivation or objective. TimeMesh is an online, multi-language, multiplayer, collaborative and social game platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. As such it is a serious game with educational characteristics. This article evaluates the use of TimeMesh with students of 13 and 14 years-old. It shows that this game is already a significant learning tool about European citizenship.