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Children's Problem-Solving in Serious Games: The "Fine-Tuning System (FTS)" Elaborated
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Obikwelu, Chinedu; Read, Janet; Sim, Gavin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
For a child to learn through Problem-Solving in Serious games, the game scaffolding mechanism has to be effective. Scaffolding is based on the Vygotzkian Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept which refers to the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learning Strategies, Child Development