Promoting the appropriation of serious games by teachers, through a metadesign approach, based on open-source software

Starting: 01/01/2024
PhD Student: Thierry FOREST
Advisor(s): Iza Marfisi
Co-advisor(s): Bertrand Marne
Funding: Collectivités locales mayennaises


Serious games offer important benefits for learning, but their use by teachers remains marginal. The objective of this thesis is to understand how to promote teachers’ appropriation of serious games intended for learning computational thinking and programming. We use the action research approach, called design-based research, to design, develop and evaluate open-source authoring tools. These authoring tools should promote appropriation through meta-design and the communalization of open educational resources.

This PhD is related to the GTNum Forges project.