A serious game to develop

and assess teamwork

competency

Mariluz Guenaga, Andoni Eguíluz, Alex Rayón,

Asier Núñez, Elena Quevedo

Competency-basedlearning

Teamworkcompetency

Game-based

learningLet’s Team!

Competency-based learning

Competency

• 21st century competencies

• Soft skills

• Non-routine and cognitive

UDLM

• Generic competencies

• Map of competencies

• Specific competencies

Coaching

• In-company training

• Abstract skills

Teamwork

Why?

How?Who?

What?

Game-based learning

Why?

How?Who?

What?Why

not?

Let’s team!!

Serious game

Adventure

To develop and

assess teamwork competency

◦ Use Learning Analytics

Combines physical and virtual

worlds

Some activities

• My relation with the rest

• What I think about myself

• How I feelDiagnosys

• Label a conversation (in/out the game)

• Label email conversation

• Label a video about a meetingListening

• Elements for an effective meeting

• Feelings after a meetingMeetings

Activity: the work cycle

Petición

Negociación

EjecuciónFinalización

Evaluación

Notificació

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The work cycle in the game

Characters in an island have to

construct a civilization

Limited number of resources

◦ Food, wood, stones, coins and time

Productive elements

◦ Tree (food), sawmill (wood), quarry

(stone)

Structures

◦ Houses, town hall, road, fountain…

Game spaces

Town – space for each player◦ Only affected by players’ actions

◦ Visible for the rest

◦ One can ask/offer resources

Shared space◦ Affected by all players

◦ Shared resources

◦ Colaborative buildings

Challenges

Get a minimum number of resources

Built some elements

Share challenges

◦ Meetings with other players

◦ Distribute challenges

◦ Balance between individual and collective

challenges

With limited time

Open/close conversational interaction

Actions to get the challenges

• Claim or apologize to solve or improve a situation

• Virtual meeting to decide something

• Before-during-after

• Anyone, anytime can complain

• Identify problems in conversations where there are agreements

Conversational Commitment

Useless complaints

Productive claim

Unique approach

Assessment

To support trainer’s evaluation

Learning Analytics

What is measured:

◦ Individual and collective objective results

◦ Actions carried out to get the challenges

◦ The progression of individual and group

feelings and relations during the whole

game

◦ Improvement in confidence

Conclusions and future work

Develop

Pilot

Analyze

Refine

Games

Competencies

Learning Analytics

Thank you! Questions?

Comments?

Mariluz Guenaga, Andoni Eguíluz, Alex Rayón,

Asier Núñez, Elena Quevedo