Games and Gaming in Education
University of Agder, Kristiansand, January 30th -31st, 2025
Pre-conference workshop (Wednesday, Jan 29th)
8:30 – 9:00
– Vrimlehallen
Registration
9:00 – 12:00
Workshop session 1
– H1 023
Game design and storytelling (Eva Capková, Juraj Grečnár)
– H1 024
Creating point-click adventures with ActivePresenter (Rolf Kreyer)
– HU 022
Designing text-based games with Inky (Timo Glaser) and RenPy (Zahir Mohamed, Filip Lewandowski)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 – 16:00
Workshop session 2
– H1 023
Game design and storytelling (Eva Capková, Juraj Grečnár)
– H1 024
Creating point-click adventures with ActivePresenter (Rolf Kreyer)
– HU 022
Designing text-based games with Inky (Timo Glaser) and RenPy (Zahir Mohamed, Filip Lewandowski)
Conference Day 1 (Thursday, Jan 30th)
8:30 – 9:00
– Vrimlehallen
Registration
9:00 – 9:15
– B3 001
Welcome & conference opening
9:15 – 10:15
– B3 001
Xavier Good
Draw me a serious game
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
– B3 001
Magnus Henrik Sandberg, Eirik Brazier & Ragnhild Hutchinson
The esthetics and ethics of history game design
11:00 – 11:30
– B3 001
Juraj Grečnár & Marcela Katuščáková
Storytelling in games
11:30 – 12:30
– Lilletunstova
Lunch break
12:30 – 13:00
– B3 001
Liv Lofthus & Magnus Henrik Sandberg
Playful collaboration among students from diverse national backgrounds
13:00 – 13:30
– B3 001
Marielle Juveng
Designing for engagement: Integrating self-designed games in English education for Norwegian lower secondary students
13:30 – 14:00
– B3 001
Odd Kjartan Aksnes
Kongen av Norge – A counterfactual history game in history teaching
14:00 – 14:15
Coffee break
14:15 – 15:15
– B3 001
Helga Dis Isfold Sigurdardottir
Leveling up learning: Redefining education through play and collaboration
15:15 – 18:00
– B2 004
Game Play Session
19:00 ->
Conference dinner
Conference Day 2 (Friday, Jan 31st)
8:45 – 9:00
– Vrimlehallen
Registration
9:00 – 10:00
– B3 004
Prof. Dr. Greta Hoffmann
Topics nobody likes, games everybody loves – Insights into the development of three serious games
10:00 – 10:15
Coffee break
10:15 – 10:45
– B3 004
Line Reichelt Føreland
Using digital games to further Indigenous knowledge in formal education
10:45 – 11:15
– B3 004
Adina Nydahl & Mathilde Dahlen Svendsen
Exploring the use of digital learning games to enhance workplace relevance in pedagogy education
11:15 – 11:45
– B3 004
Rolf Kreyer
Game-based teaching in linguistics – looking back moving forward
11:45 – 12:30
– Lilletunstova
Lunch break
12:30 – 13:00
– B3 004
Rune Andersen
Spill som motivasjon, spill som undervisningsverktøy og spill som internalisert del av undervisning
13:00 – 13:30
– B3 004
Christian Simonsen Arete
What we learned developing an AI-assisted mixed reality serious game
13:30 – 14:00
– B3 004
Apostolos Spanos
AI4Plato: Artificial intelligence and immersion for personalized learning and teaching optimization
14:00 – 14:15
Coffee break
14:15 – 15:15
– B3 004
Tobias Scholz
Game on: Leveraging esports for educational assessment and competency evaluation
15:15 – 15:30
– B3 004
Thank you & conference closing