ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 (ARGuing) is a European=20
Union education project.
The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for=20
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has=20
also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.
The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a=20
story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save =
the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and=20
internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers =
and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In=20
the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.=20
The project has created a number of resources that are available online,=20
these include:
3. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes=20
multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view=20
inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject=20
line of the email =96 TofB platform
4. A project website with additional information http://www.arg-
education.eu . On the website are papers to download including:
a. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
b. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with=20
empirical evidence of results
c. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be=20
used for other subjects or cross-subjects
d. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the=20
ARG the project produced
e. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology=20
employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the=20
3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning http://academic-
conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )
The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators=20
interested in using ARGs in education.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Prof. Thomas Connolly
Coordinator ARGuing EU project
University of The West of Scotland
Thomas@arg-education.eu
http://www.arg-education.eu/
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