Turtles and Ethics : Experiential Learning through Game-making

• Teaching and exploring the ethical issues brought about by digitalization is an important challenge in current higher education programs. Experiential learning through games is becoming increasingly relevant as games exert an enormous influence on the imaginarium of newer generations. This paper details how a class of international graduate students engaged in a year-long exploration of ethics, gender, and sustainability issues by playing, remixing, and designing games using an original Design Games Framework. Using a qualitative approach based on participatory observations that followed the student's entire game-making process and a series of final semi-structured interviews, the paper illustrates how game-making can enable higher education students to better understand the complex interplay of ethical issues and digitalization processes, as well as confirming that the Design Games Framework is a valid instrument for the exploration of ethics through the design of tabletop games in a higher education setting.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Game design

Philosophical aspects

'current

Design games

Digitalization

Ethical issues

Experiential learning

Game frameworks

Game-based Learning

Graduate students

Higher education programmes

Privacy

Students

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