News
co.LAB – a new project financed by the SNF
December 2019
The co.LAB project (A Digital Lab for the co-Design, co-Development and co-Evaluation of Digital Learning Games) has been elected for a four-year grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in the frame of the NRP 77 programme “Digital Transformation”.
Main applicant: Prof. D. Jaccard, Albasim, MEI, HES-SO
Co-applicant: Prof. E. Sanchez, LIP, UniFr
M-Benefit: workshop in Berlin
November 2019
The serious game M-Benefit is presented and tested at a public workshop in Berlin.
Training of energy managers with the serious game “M-Benefits” starts in Germany, England, Spain, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.
AlbaSim at Politecnico do Porto
October 2019
Dominique Jaccard spends a week as a visiting professor at Politecnico do Porto, including leading a workshop “Serious Games in Higher Education”, a master’s course in project management based on the PM-Game, a visit to the business management simulation laboratory and discussions on possible future collaborations.
What we do…
AlbaSim is the “Serious Game” research axis at the Media Engineering Institute of the HES-SO.
Our research and development activities are related to the design and development of Serious Games for training purposes. A Serious Game is a computer application that combines a serious intention, of an educational, informative or training nature with playful mechanics from the worlds of video games and computer simulations.
Our research and development activities includes designing authoring tools for serious games, integrating serious games and active pedagogies, using serious games as a basis for resolving real-world problems, analyzing the impact of using serious games.
Discover our Serious Games…
Research Projects
co.LAB: A lab for collaborating on digital learning games (2020)
The co.LAB project (A Digital Lab for the co-Design, co-Development and co-Evaluation of Digital Learning Games) has been elected for a four-year grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in the frame of the NRP 77 programme “Digital Transformation”.
The co.LAB project aims to set up a methodological framework for collaboration between teachers, game developers and researchers in educational sciences, supported by a collaborative digital platform dedicated to the co-design, co-development and co-evaluation of digital learning games.
Responsible applicant: Prof. Dominique Jaccard, Albasim, MEI, HES-SO
Main project partner: LIP (Laboratoire d’Innovation Pédagogique, UniFR, Prof. Eric Sanchez),
«Serious games» in higher education (2019)
The objective of this project is to explore, test and disseminate the potential for educational innovation brought by serious games in university education.
This project is funded by the DIKU (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Improvement in Higher Education), who promotes promote development and innovation in education, encourage international cooperation and digital learning methods.
Partners: University in Agder, Norway
Collaborations
We conduct AR&D projects in collaboration with academic partners ranging from pedagogical research centers to natural language processing.
LIP – Laboratoire d’Innovation Pédagogique (UniFr)
Joint research projects in the area of learning analytics and education in computational thinking.
University of Agder
Research collaboration on the implementation of serious games in academic education.