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Lost in Antarctica: Designing an Information Literacy Game to Support Motivation and Learning Success

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Tackling Society's Grand Challenges with Design Science (DESRIST 2016)

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The acquirement of information literacy skills is associated with a number of challenges (e.g. less motivation because often no grades are given). This paper presents a new method for developing information literacy – the gameducation application “Lost in Antarctica”. Gameducation describes the integration of game design elements into education and, within that concept, learners have to act as realistic characters in a realistic environment. It uses the beneficial effects of games to positively influence the student’s motivation and learning success.

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  1. Chair Information Management, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Linda Eckardt & Susanne Robra-Bissantz

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  1. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Canada

    Jeffrey Parsons

  2. University of Jyväskylöä, Jyväskylä yliopisto, Finland

    Tuure Tuunanen

  3. Curtain University, Bentley, Australia

    John Venable

  4. Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co., Kildare, Ireland

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  5. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  6. Intel Labs Europe, Leixlip, Ireland

    Jim Kenneally

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Eckardt, L., Robra-Bissantz, S. (2016). Lost in Antarctica: Designing an Information Literacy Game to Support Motivation and Learning Success. In: Parsons, J., Tuunanen, T., Venable, J., Donnellan, B., Helfert, M., Kenneally, J. (eds) Tackling Society's Grand Challenges with Design Science. DESRIST 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9661. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39294-3_15

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