Serious game design and learning effect verification supporting traditional pattern learning

ABSTRACT

Traditional pattern teaching is an essential part of cultivating artistic quality, which is confronted with cognitive and motivational problems of teenagers. As a teaching strategy, schema theory attaches importance to the students’ knowledge construction, which can reduce the cognitive difficulties caused by the increase of knowledge difficulty. This theory is often used in traditional teaching methods. Serious game is a new carrier that has emerged in recent years, it pays attention to experience and immersion, promising to improve artistic learning and motivation. Therefore, this research attempts to extract the characteristics of schema theory to guide serious game design to learning traditional patterns. The specific objective was to investigate how schema and game were connected and explore the impact of games compared with multimedia courseware on students’ performance, motivation and cognitive load. The study involved two groups of students who used serious games and multimedia courseware in the same experimental environment. The results indicated that schema can be better integrated into the game, and the game also accelerated schema construction. Moreover, the game has advantages in acquiring and retaining knowledge, optimizing intrinsic motivation and cognitive load.

KEYWORDS:

• Traditional pattern
• serious game
• schema theory
• learning achievements
• artistic accomplishment

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the 3 experts and 62 participants of college students in our trials and reviewers’ valuable suggestions.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Author contributions

Li Ye: Conceptualization, Investigation, Data curation, Writing – original draft. Xueyan Zhou: Validation, Writing – review & editing. Simin Yang: Writing – review & editing. Yongxin Hang: Supervision, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing.

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Notes on contributors

Li Ye

Li Ye is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design in China University of Mining & Technology (CUMT). Her research interests focus on digital conservation and innovation symposium for art cultural heritage.

Xueyan Zhou

Xueyan Zhou received her BS degree in Arts at Shandong Agricultural University in 2019. She is currently a master graduate student in Design at the China University of Mining and Technology. Her research interest is the study of traditional patterns.

Simin Yang

Simin Yang received her BS degree in Arts at Southwest University of Science and Technology in 2019. She is currently a master graduate student in Design at the China University of Mining and Technology. Her research interests mainly focus on museum information dissemination.

Yongxin Hang

Yongxin Hang is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design in China University of Mining & Technology (CUMT). His research interests focus on the educational research of art design and cultural heritage.