A Method to Balance Educational Game Content and Lesson Duration: The Case of a Digital Simulation Game for Nurse Training

Catherine Pons Lelardeux (1, 2) , Michel Galaup (1, 3) , Hervé Pingaud (1, 4) , Catherine Mercadier (5) , Pierre Lagarrigue (1, 6)

1 SGRL - Serious Game Research Lab
2 IRIT-REVA - Real Expression Artificial Life
3 EFTS - Education, Formation, Travail, Savoirs
4 LGC - Laboratoire de Génie Chimique
5 ARS Occitanie - Agence Régionale de Santé Occitanie
6 ICA - Institut Clément Ader

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest for training future Healthcare professionals using a digital real like professional environment. An innovative interactive digital environment has been designed to train nurses to organize their job in a medical unit which hosts until fifteen patients. A set of interactive scenarios has been embedded in this game-based simulation. One of the critical point is to fit the educational content included in a scenario to the lesson duration. In this article, we present the method used to find a good balancing act between the time required to achieve a scenario and the educational content embedded in a digital game scenario.

Mots clés: Serious game; Virtual training environment; Design experiment; Nurse scheduling

Domaines: Education

Catherine Pons Lelardeux, Michel Galaup, Hervé Pingaud, Catherine Mercadier, Pierre Lagarrigue. A Method to Balance Educational Game Content and Lesson Duration: The Case of a Digital Simulation Game for Nurse Training. ICL 2019: The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education, Sep 2019, Bangkok, Thailand. pp.125-136, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-40274-7_13⟩. ⟨hal-02860745⟩