"O Livro do Conhecimento": a serious educational game for learning Portuguese orthography
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https://doi.org/10.5753/rbie.2020.28.0.436Keywords:
active learning, spelling in Portuguese, serious games, storytelling, cognitive theory of multimedia learningAbstract
The impact that educational games can have on learning processes has been an important research issue. This paper presents an educational adventure game entitled "The Book of Knowledge", which proposes to promote the exercise of Portuguese spelling in a playful way, motivating the players through the proposed challenges. The software was developed through steps that considered the pedagogical educational aspects, the biological information processing system and the requirements of commercial and educational games. The game is based on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (TCAM) and on active learning processes, regarding the development of the interface and learning flow. The analysis of the tests and evaluations indicated the existence of positive impacts, in order to enable the learning of structures and orthographic rules in Portuguese language to be enhanced.
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