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Strategies for Balancing Challenges and Skills of Information Literacy Educational Game
Received date: 2015-07-21
Revised date: 2015-08-12
Online published: 2015-09-05
[Purpose/significance]This paper aims to draw lessons from the flow theory, the principle and method to balance challenges and skills in games, to raise and test the strategies for promoting the balance between challenges and skills in information literacy educational games. [Method/process] How the mechanism for balancing challenges and skills promotes or restricts flow experience is analyzed, and the principles to realize the static and dynamic balance of challenges and skills are summarized. Four strategies to balance challenges and skills in information literacy educational games are proposed and applied in the design of the challenge system of Knowledge Factory, an educational game for college students to learn knowledge about document types. The result is examined with experiment. [Result/conclusion]The knowledge-challenge-dominated strategy is helpful to design game tasks in accord with the characteristics of learning content, and a dynamic challenge system matching players’ skill levels could be established based on the inherent logic of knowledge. The strategy to guide players with scaffolding helps to lower difficulty level of challenge. The strategy to disassemble learning content is helpful to design information literacy educational games in accordance with the law of progressive teaching. The strategy to simplify interactive operation is conducive to lighten cognitive load.
Luo Ding , Wu Jianhua , Zhang Zheng . Strategies for Balancing Challenges and Skills of Information Literacy Educational Game[J]. Library and Information Service, 2015 , 59(17) : 19 -25 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2015.17.003
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