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The Knowledge Triangle Cards: supporting university-society collaborations


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11th European Conference on Games Based Learning


Abstract

The Knowledge Triangle Cards (KT Cards) is an educational tool designed for a pilot course at Mälardalen University which aims to help students to contextualize studies to global and national societal needs and to collaborate more closely with society (business and municipalities). The aim is to have students become better at choosing assignments, projects and thesis topics that tie in closer to the labour market and societal needs. The KT Cards are based on a traditional deck of cards and the suits represent different aspects of the knowledge context: opportunity, process, outcome, and stakeholder. Additionally, a set of gamified and non-gamified exercises were designed to prompt reflection and discussion about how student projects incorporate these aspects. A pilot study was carried out in order to test and develop the educational tools and future studies. A total of 24 students and teachers participated and data was collected through observations and feedback from participants. The study indicates that the gamified activities could influence reflection and discussion by speeding up pace of the activity and affecting group dynamics. Two aspects were identified as potentially prompting gamification- shorter time frames and having multiple groups completing the activities. Further studies will look more closely at these aspects for designing gamification and how this affects discussion. The next design iteration will implement minor changes to the visual design of the cards and review how the prototype could provide students with know-how on university- society collaborations and a deeper understanding of the Knowledge Triangle concept.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Gottlieb5041,
author = {Laura Gottlieb},
title = {The Knowledge Triangle Cards: supporting university-society collaborations},
month = {April},
year = {2018},
booktitle = {11th European Conference on Games Based Learning },
url = {http://www.ipr.mdu.se/publications/5041-}
}