Designing a Farming Game with Social Design to Support Learning by Reciprocal Questioning and Answering

Abstract

Most of learners usually hesitate and tend to keep silence in online discussion for learning in traditional e-Learning platform, but they are enthusiastic about posting messages and playing games in social networking sites. By taking the advantages of social learning games, this article presents an initial study on designing a farming game “The Secret Garden of Angels” with a social interaction strategy which is modeled from an icebreaker game ‘The Little Angel and Master’ in real world. The learning mechanism integrated into the game is learning by reciprocal questioning and answering. Through playing interesting farming game with classmates, the social learning game attempts to raise the learning motivation, interaction between teachers and students and among students, and then the learning achievement.