Biology Student User Experience for Life on the Edge Video Game Phase 2

Closed
Assistant Professor
1
Project
Academic experience
50 hours per learner
Learner
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Education Social sciences Scientific research
Skills
playtesting biology
Details

Students will be involved as a partner in the project to gain experiential knowledge related to new features designed in the serious video game Life on Edge.

Deliverables

Participate in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings and provide your perspective. This phase of the project will focus on completion of development of an additional educational resource (or control) for testing learning impacts of the game. Additional testing of the control (non playable form) and designing features of the study will be focused on. Final play testing of the game components will occur.

Mentorship

Support in the form(s) of weekly meetings and contact with team members, troubleshooting, and ongoing contact with professor(s).

About the company

Company
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
0 - 1 employees
Education

The Biological Sciences major includes two streams of study—molecular/cellular biology and ecology/environmental biology. Our dedicated faculty members, program of study and facilities provide opportunities for students to study life from its smallest to its grandest forms, both inside and outside the classroom. Newly constructed facilities include a microscopy suite, a tissue culture facility, a histology centre and a small aquatics room with freshwater and marine tanks. During spring and summer terms, the five undergraduate teaching laboratories are used by faculty and students for research activities. Experiential learning opportunities include a 300-level Tropical Rainforest Ecology course, which includes an 18-day field trip to Ecuador where students can experience a variety of ecosystems including the Amazonian lowland rainforest, the Andean cloud forest and the Galapagos Islands.