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Students’ Enjoyment of a Game-Based Tutoring System

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 6738))

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iSTART-ME is a new game-based learning environment developed on top of an existing ITS (iSTART). The current study deviates from previous work focusing on individual ITS components, and utilizes a smaller number of students (n=9) who engaged with the entire system over a period of several weeks. The participants indicated that they enjoyed the game-based aspects of the system significantly more than the non-game aspects. These results support the use of iSTART-ME as a system that promotes long-term enjoyment.

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  1. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

    G. Tanner Jackson, Natalie L. Davis & Danielle S. McNamara

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  1. EECS Department/ISIS, Vanderbilt University, TN 37235, Nashville, USA

    Gautam Biswas

  2. Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K.

    Susan Bull

  3. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 1 Cleveland Street, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  4. College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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Jackson, G.T., Davis, N.L., McNamara, D.S. (2011). Students’ Enjoyment of a Game-Based Tutoring System. In: Biswas, G., Bull, S., Kay, J., Mitrovic, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_74

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