Ó Súilleabháin, Gearóid and Walsh, Paul and Sime, Julie-Ann
(2009) The role of games in facilitating preparation for future
learning. In: Proceedings of the 3rd european conference on
games-based learning. ACI, pp. 294-302. ISBN
978-1-906638-47-4Full text not available from this repository.
This paper, after exploring the importance and relevance of
learning transfer to the development of and research into games
for learning, presents a reconceptualisation of learning
transfer as “preparation for future learning” (Bransford &
Swartz 1999) and goes on to describe efforts to develop a web-
based space game to facilitate learning transfer in this sense
to a series of novel learning tasks presented as part of an
innovative interactive astronomy exhibit for children.
Discussion is offered with regard to the game design and
development process – the latter based on the Adobe Flash CS3
environment – and with regard to results of the pilot of a
“proof of concept” game prototype with a group of 26 boys aged
10-12. Some