Designing Educational Games
Creating games to enhance learning outcomes.
A closer look at your course
What you’ll learn
Learning objectives drawn from the published course content.
- Specify learning.
- Separate winning/mastery.
- Align evidence.
- Define legal moves.
- Check feasibility.
- Separate chance/choice.
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- Produce supplied materials.
- Verify state/roles.
- Record usability.
- Preserve common whole.
- Verify equivalent units.
- Check complete key.
- Tie checks to reasoning.
- Record contributions.
- Plan fresh transfer.
- Vary relevant constraints.
- Test attainable/impossible.
- Preserve objective.
- Preserve demand.
- Design usable roles.
- Avoid fixed labels.
- Separate score/learning.
- Inspect ownership.
- Specify individual check.
- Specify feature purpose.
- Check state/feedback.
- Separate proposed/actual.
- Reconcile actual time.
- Retain team/help records.
- Plan unresolved evidence.
- Reconcile paired change.
- Bound game effects.
- Plan further checks.
- Defend complete game design.
- Propagate corrections.
- Appraise evidence limits.
Inside the curriculum
Explore the published modules and lessons. Full lesson content is available through your student account, with free enrolment. Learning sequence and administrative access controls still apply.
01Learning Purpose,Mechanics and Prototype3 lessons
Create an inspectable complete paper game.
- Designing a Game Around the Learning Decision
- Making Legal Moves and Game State Unambiguous
- Building and Trying the Complete Paper Prototype
02Mathematical Integrity,Feedback and Variation3 lessons
Preserve correct reasoning and purposeful challenge.
- Verifying the Common Whole and Every Valid Pair
- Giving Feedback on the Reasoning Rather Than the Reward Alone
- Changing a Constraint While Preserving the Learning Objective
03Access,Evidence and Optional Digital Design3 lessons
Keep participation usable and learning attributable.
- Making Participation Usable Without Removing the Reasoning
- Separating Team Checks from Independent Transfer
- Auditing an Optional Digital Version Before Claiming It Exists
04Delivery,Evaluation and Professional Defence3 lessons
Reconcile actual play and bounded learning change.
- Recording Clarification,Team Play and Actual Contributions
- Evaluating Unfamiliar Fraction Reasoning After Play
- Capstone: Defending a Complete and Reviewable Educational Game
Is this course for you?
Who this is for
Educators aligning game mechanics,accessible participation,feedback and attributable learning evidence.
Before you begin
Basic teaching knowledge and fraction equivalence/addition;paper cards can be made from supplied text.
Who this is not for
Not a delivered software game,commercial game-effect guarantee or replacement for independent learning assessment.
Assessment & completion
20 scenario questions, 5 marks each (100 total), covering every lesson. Complete required lessons and select every correct answer before submission. Portfolio/capstone activities support self or instructor review; the portal does not collect or automatically grade projects and they are not an additional certificate gate. Credit allocation awaits institutional approval.
Materials & resources
4 modules with 12 complete lessons, reviewed sources, a connected fictional case, practice portfolio, scored capstone rubric and reusable template.