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The Digital Serious Games, a Specific Educational Resource: Analysing Teachers and Educational Engineer’s Information Seeking Behaviour Using the Concept of Information Horizons

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We present the first study that analyses and understands the information seeking behaviour of teachers and pedagogical engineers in the context of Serious Games. Although digital serious games are increasingly recognized as valuable educational resources, research into teachers and pedagogical engineers’ information-seeking behaviour and needs in this area remains sparse. To fill this gap, we engaged with 31 teachers to examine how they find, use and orchestrate digital serious games for their everyday classrooms. We conducted two workshops with the participants and used an elicitation toolkit to gather: teachers information sources, needs and challenges.

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  • Serious Games
  • Information behaviour
  • Information literacy

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  1. Le Mans Université, Le Mans, France

    Mamoudou Ndiaye, Fabrice Pirolli & Raphaëlle Crétin-Pirolli

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  1. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Pierpaolo Dondio

  2. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Mariana Rocha

  3. University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Attracta Brennan

  4. Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany

    Avo Schönbohm

  5. CAPTRS, Austin, TX, USA

    Francesca de Rosa

  6. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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Ndiaye, M., Pirolli, F., Crétin-Pirolli, R. (2024). The Digital Serious Games, a Specific Educational Resource: Analysing Teachers and Educational Engineer’s Information Seeking Behaviour Using the Concept of Information Horizons. In: Dondio, P., et al. Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49065-1_47

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