cad a22 4500 569188857 20190828044542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 190723e20160108xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-170246 doi 10.1111/bjet.12226 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:170246 370 ddc Iten Nina Learning with serious games: is fun playing the game a predictor of learning success? [Elektronische Daten] [Nina Iten, Dominik Petko] openAccess eu-repo Serious games are generally considered to induce positive effects in the areas of learning motivation and learning gains. Yet few studies have examined how these factors are related. Therefore, an empirical study was conducted to test the relationship between anticipated enjoyment and willingness to play, as well as between game enjoyment, self‐reported cognitive and motivational learning gains and test results. In an explorative study, 74 children from five primary schools played the learning game AWWWARE. The results of pre‐ and post‐tests were analysed using multiple linear regressions. The analysis showed that anticipated enjoyment played only a minor part in students' willingness to learn with serious games. Of greater importance was the students' expectation that the learning game would be easy and instructive. The level of actual enjoyment of the game also had a smaller influence than expected. While there was a correlation between enjoyment and the motivation to continue being engaged with the subject matter of the game, no effect was found with respect to self‐assessed or tested learning gains. The results lead to the conclusion that other factors, such as explicit learning tasks, instruction and support inherent in the game or supplemented by teachers, may be more decisive than the experience of fun during the game. Institute of Education zora Petko Dominik joint author British Journal of Educational Technology 47(1):151-163 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/170246/1/Iten_et_al-2016-British_Journal_of_Educational_Technology.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora SNSF/Projectfunding/13DPD3_134705/CH zora grantAgreement ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/170246/1/Iten_et_al-2016-British_Journal_of_Educational_Technology.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Iten Nina ZORA 700 1- Petko Dominik joint author ZORA 773 0- British Journal of Educational Technology 47(1):151-163 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess