ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a platform of Urban Tourism Scenario Game, which is created to enhance the teaching-learning process of tourism geography and planning through a scenario-based game of a hypothetical city under urban tourism development. This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of the game in terms of knowledge enrichment, attitudinal changes and usability of the game platform rated by the groups of undergraduate student participants. The overall effectiveness of the game is generally found positive. Paired-sample t-test results indicate that the users have significant positive changes in the dimension of knowledge. Cluster analysis identified two participant groups, namely active-cognitive and knowledge-focused learners, which indicated their different aspects of effectiveness from either game-based or discussion learning. This urban tourism scenario game raises students’ learning interests more than acting as a substitute for traditional lecturing. Game-based learning in this urban tourism platform has opened the potential to lead to attitudinal changes by simulating and presenting real-world environments similar to other areas in geography education. Given an arguably lack of clear pattern of the learning enhancement, it is critical that game-based teaching should still be incorporated with other instructional classroom activities to deliver effective knowledge transfer.

摘要

本文介绍了一个城市旅游情景游戏平台，该平台旨在通过城市旅游发展下的一个假想城市的情景游戏来加强旅游地理与规划的教学过程。本研究从本科生参与者群体评价的游戏平台的知识丰富度、态度变化和可用性方面评估和比较游戏的有效性。游戏的整体效果通常被认为是积极的。配对样本 t 检验结果表明，用户在知识维度上有显着的正向变化。聚类分析确定了两个参与者群体，即主动认知学习者和以知识为中心的学习者，这表明他们从基于游戏的学习或讨论学习的有效性的不同方面。这个城市旅游场景游戏比传统讲座更能提高学生的学习兴趣。这个城市旅游平台中基于游戏的学习通过模拟和呈现与地理教育其他领域类似的真实世界环境，开启了导致态度变化的潜力。鉴于可以说缺乏明确的学习增强模式，基于游戏的教学仍应与其他教学课堂活动相结合，以提供有效的知识转移，这一点至关重要。这个城市旅游平台中基于游戏的学习通过模拟和呈现与地理教育其他领域类似的真实世界环境，开启了导致态度变化的潜力。鉴于可以说缺乏明确的学习增强模式，基于游戏的教学仍应与其他教学课堂活动相结合，以提供有效的知识转移，这一点至关重要。这个城市旅游平台中基于游戏的学习通过模拟和呈现与地理教育其他领域类似的真实世界环境，开启了导致态度变化的潜力。鉴于可以说缺乏明确的学习增强模式，基于游戏的教学仍应与其他教学课堂活动相结合，以提供有效的知识转移，这一点至关重要。