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Lux, Joelle-Denise and Budke, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0003-1063-8991 (2020). Playing with Complex Systems? The Potential to Gain Geographical System Competence through Digital Gaming. Educ. Sci., 10 (5). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2227-7102

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Abstract

The current socio-ecological challenges and phenomena that are major topics of geography education, like climate change and migration, are highly complex. Maturity in these contexts requires a networked way of thinking, and a systemic competence that is difficult to develop in geography classes alone. Digital games that simulate complex systems which include the pressing issues of today's challenges may be a useful supplement to foster systems thinking. In this study, we develop a framework to assess the complexity of in-game systems. A subsequent analysis of a selection of current commercial strategy and simulation games shows how system complexity is designed differently in the various games. Based on these results, we make recommendations for the selection and use of different games in formal and informal learning contexts.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lux, Joelle-Denise UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Budke, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1063-8991 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-334734
DOI:	10.3390/educsci10050130
Journal or Publication Title:	Educ. Sci.
Volume:	10
Number:	5
Date:	2020
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2227-7102
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GAMES; SIMCITY Multiple languages Education & Educational Research Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/33473