{"id":8563,"date":"2025-05-20T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8563"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:41:08","slug":"learning-analytics-guide-serious-game-development-a-case-study-using-articoding","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/portfolio-item\/learning-analytics-guide-serious-game-development-a-case-study-using-articoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Analytics to Guide Serious Game Development: A Case Study Using Articoding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Learning Analytics to Guide Serious Game Development: <\/strong><br><strong>A Case Study Using Articoding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serious games are powerful interactive environments that provide more authentic experiences for learning or training different skills. However, developing effective serious games is complex, and a more systematic approach is needed to create better evidence-based games. Learning analytics\u2014based on the analysis of collected in-game user interactions\u2014can support game development and the players\u2019 learning process, providing assessment information to teachers, students, and other stakeholders. However, empirical studies applying and demonstrating the use of learning analytics in the context of serious games in real environments remain scarce. In this paper, we study the application of learning analytics throughout the whole lifecycle of a serious game, in order to assess the game\u2019s design and players\u2019 learning using a serious game that introduces basic programming concepts through a visual programming language. The game was played by N = 134 high school students in two 50-min sessions. During the game sessions, all player interactions were collected, including the time spent solving levels, their programming solutions, and the number of replays. We analyzed these interaction traces to gain insights that can facilitate teachers\u2019 use of serious games in their lessons and assessments, as well as guide developers in making possible improvements to the game. Among these insights, knowing which tasks students struggle with is critical for both teachers and game developers, and can also reveal game design issues. Among the results obtained through analysis of the interaction data, we found differences between boys and girls when playing. Girls play in a more reflexive way and, in terms of acceptance of the game, a higher percentage of girls had neutral opinions. We also found the most repeated errors, the level each player reached, and how long it took them to reach those levels. These data will help to make further improvements to the game\u2019s design, resulting in a more effective educational tool in the future. The process and results of this study can guide other researchers when applying learning analytics to evaluate and improve the educational design of serious games, as well as supporting teachers\u2014both during and after the game activity\u2014in applying an evidence-based assessment of the players based on the collected learning analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Full reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antonio Calvo-Morata, Cristina Alonso-Fern\u00e1ndez, Julio Santilario-Berthilier, Iv\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez-Ortiz, Baltasar Fern\u00e1ndez-Manj\u00f3n (2025): <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pubman.e-ucm.es\/drafts\/e-UCM_draft_395.pdf\">Learning Analytics to Guide Serious Game Development: A Case Study Using Articoding<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Computers, 14, 122. [JCR 2023 IF 2.4, 100\/1700, Q3 in COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS]. DOI: 10.3390\/computers14040122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">\u00bfQuieres saber m\u00e1s sobre Articoding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revisa la p\u00e1gina del proyecto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/portfolio-item\/articoding\/\">aqu\u00ed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art\u00edculo describiendo el juego serio Articoding y el uso de Anal\u00edticas de Aprendizaje para mejorar su desarrollo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[30,29],"portfolio_entries":[128,130,131],"class_list":["post-8563","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-learning-analytics-es","tag-serious-games-es","portfolio_entries-articulos","portfolio_entries-homepage-articulos","portfolio_entries-articulos-revistas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8576,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8563\/revisions\/8576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-ucm.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}