Game-based learning

Game-based learning uses games as structured activities to help learners achieve educational objectives. Games provide rules, goals, feedback, and challenges through which learners practice knowledge or skills.

Serious game: A game designed primarily for purposes such as education, training, health, or public policy rather than entertainment. Serious games make learning or training an explicit purpose of play.
Simulation: A representation of a system or process used to explore its behavior under specified conditions. Simulated worlds let learners practice decisions with modeled consequences.
Gamification: The use of game elements in a non-game activity or system. It adds game-like features to instruction without necessarily making instruction a game.
Transfer of learning: The application of knowledge or skills learned in one context to a different context. A central test is whether learning in a game carries over to real tasks.
Feedback: Information about performance or outcomes that can guide subsequent action. Game responses let learners assess choices and adjust strategies.
Educational video game: A digital game designed to support learning in an educational setting. Digital games deliver interactive practice through computers and mobile devices.
Game-informed learning: An approach that adapts ideas from games without requiring learners to play a complete game. It borrows game principles while leaving the activity itself outside a game.
Learning analytics: The collection and analysis of data about learners and their contexts to understand or improve learning. Game interactions can generate data about choices, progress, and difficulty.
Scaffolding: Temporary support that helps learners perform tasks they cannot yet complete independently. Guidance can make game challenges manageable without removing meaningful effort.
Game-based learning in medical education: The use of games to teach medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, or healthcare skills. Medical games can provide structured practice in clinical decisions and procedures.

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