Building the Games Students Want to Play

Abstract

The University of Michigan’s School of Information and its partner, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, are undertaking the 3-year BiblioBouts Project (October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2011) to support the design, development, testing, and evaluation of a computer game to teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts. This first interim report describes the project team’s 7-month progress achieving 2 of the project’s 4 objectives, designing the BiblioBouts game and initiating evaluation activities. It also enumerates major tasks that will occupy the team for the next 5 months. Game design details are given in appendix A that includes pedagogical goals and how the game scores players.