Training Teamwork Skills Using MMORPGs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Wang, Dai-Yi; Chen, Ying-An
- Source
- 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference On Digital Game And Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on. :94-98 Mar, 2012
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Teamwork
Games
Training
Lead
Educational institutions
Collaborative work
Computers
teamwork
game-based learning
MMORPG
flow
leadership
- Language
Many researchers speculated that Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) could create a problem-based learning environment for students to learn teamwork skills. In this study, a highly interactive MMORPG, World of War craft (WoW) was adopted and one-group pretest posttest experiment was designed to answer two questions: (a) Do students¡¦ teamwork skills enhance through team playing in WoW? (b) Do training outcomes vary by the roles that students play in the game? (c) Are training outcomes related to the degree of the flow experience the students have? Unfortunately, the experimental results did not support that WoW is effective in training teamwork skills.