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"How might serious games trigger a transformation in project management education ? Lessons learned from 10 Years of experimentations", written in collaboration between co.LAB and university in Agder, is published in the special issue "Digital Education and Learning in a Project Society", Elsevier.

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Beginning of a collaboration between the co.LAB project and another NRP77 project, the "Learning analytics dashboards" project at EPFL. 

The collaboration should improve understanding of why and how teachers use serious games dashboards.

Based on the results of the first use test, the use of the "Patients' Rights" serious game is extended to the physiotherapy (40 students) and nursing (80 students) programs.

Evaluation of the quality of the game by students, as well as analysis of its impact on learning, is underway.

The theme of the third edition of the co.LAB seminar will take place on 4 February from 9:00 to 11:30. The topic is "Collaborative design: models and tools". The guest speaker is Jean-Marie Burkhardt (LaPEA, Univ. Gustave Eiffel). Elsa Paukovics, Estelle Prior and Simon Morard, PhD students at TECFA, will present their work on the sharing of tools dedicated to collaborative design.

Registration to the seminar is free of charge:
https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/fr/Co.LAB/Edition_3

The serious game developed in the framework of the use case "Patients' rights and innovative teaching strategy" is used at HESAV, in an educational context, by more than 150 students in "Année propédeutique de santé".

First validation of the co.LAB framework is published in the journal JMIR Serious Games.

Jaccard D, Suppan L, Bielser F. Contribution of the co.LAB Framework to the Collaborative Design of Serious Games: Mixed Methods Validation Study. JMIR Serious Games 2021;9(4). [doi: 10.2196/33144].

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Dans son travail de thèse qui s'inscrit dans le projet co.LAB, Estelle Prior développe un modèle de la conception collaborative de jeux. Ce modèle prend plus particulièrement en compte la question du transfert des savoirs au sein de l'équipe de conception et les processus de prise de décision. Ce modèle alimente la réflexion qui est menée sur la plateforme co.LAB et, d'une manière plus large, sur les travaux interdisciplinaires de type recherche orientée par la conception.

La seconde édition du cycle de séminaires organisé dans le cadre du projet co.LAB et intitulé “Co-conception, co-développement et co-évaluation des ressources numériques éducatives" a été consacrée à des travaux qui s’intéressent à conceptualiser la question de la conception collaborative.

Our serious games design framework is published in the journal JMIR Serious Games.

Jaccard D., Suppan L., Sanchez E., Huguenin A., and Laurent M., The co.LAB Generic Framework for Collaborative Design of Serious Games: Development Study, JMIR Serious Games, 2021, doi: 10/03/2021:28674.

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co.LAB will be present at IEEE Serious Games for Health, Dubai, with a long paper and a presentation "A serious game for patient' rights education", D. Correia, F. Bielser, D. Bonnard, S. Yavavli, D. Jaccard

co.LAB will be present at the International Conference on Gamification & Serious Games (GSGS’21), with a presentation "Gamification & Patients’ Rights: a Serious Game for students in Healthcare", D. Correia, F. Bielser, D. Bonnard, S. Yavavli, P-B. Monaco, A. Huguenin, S. Monnier, D. Jaccard

La première édition du cycle de séminaires organisé dans le cadre du projet co.LAB et intitulé “Co-conception, co-développement et co-évaluation des ressources numériques éducatives" a été consacrée à des travaux qui s’intéressent à conceptualiser la notion de ressource éducative.

MIMMS is a large-scale project aiming at the development of a serious game that will prepare health professionals to manage exceptional events.

The project team, which includes researchers, medical doctors, emergency medical staff, instructors, IT specialists, graphical designers and serious games experts, has opted for the co.LAB framework as a guideline for the serious game design.

On Monday 19 April 2021, the first symposium on patients’ rights will be held on the theme “Practical challenges and teaching in the digital age”. The symposium will be organised by a multidisciplinary team from the Haute Ecole Santé Vaud (HESAV) in partnership with AlbaSim, HEIG-VD. 

PRITS, the first serious game developed with co.LAB methodology, will be the focus of several talks.

Web page of the first serious game currently in development with the co.LAB framework.  Patients' Rigths and Innovative Teaching Strategies (PRITS) is an interdisciplinary project that aims to facilitate the learning of patients' rights for heatlh professionals. The project team involved trainers, engineers and researchers from health, law, design, education and computer sciences.

PRITS project is a partnership between AlbaSim, MEI (HEIG-VD) and the Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud.

This workshop is specifically dedicated to digital learning game authoring tools, with topics as:

• The existing Wegas platform 
• UX and UI aspects
• Concept of the co.LAB platform
• Usage traces analysis

The workshop is attended by project team (UniFr and HES-SO) and Nadine Mandran (CNRS, Grenoble University).

Workshop includes discussions on practical implication of ethics and data protection aspects for digital learning games.

The workshop is attended by project team (UniFr and HES-SO), Nadine Mandran (CNRS, Grenoble University) and Mathieu Vermeulen (IMT Lille).

Workshop includes discussions on digital learning games design methodology, design process and collaborative processes.

The workshop is attended by project team (UniFr and HES-SO), Nadine Mandran (CNRS, Grenoble University) and Mathieu Vermeulen (IMT Lille).

The co.LAB framework is tested by the AlbaSim team in the Patient’s Rights & Innovative Teaching Strategy (PRITS) project.

This project, in partnership between AlbaSim and Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud (HESAV), aims at developing a Serious Game whose purpose is as much to support students in learning the legal rules applicable in the field of heath, as to broaden the pedagogical options of teaching and learning.

First use of the "learning game project description model" at Bern University. The model is used in order to define a serious game project at veterinary faculty.

The model was used to guide discussion of a multidisciplinary team including the clinic director, a veterinary student, a veterinary doctoral student, a computer scientist and a serious game designer. The model enable to have a project description and proposal at the end of the 3 hours meeting.

During the meeting, foundations of project management are defined. A first outline of the elements of the co-creation methodology is elaborated.

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”.