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Mentoring Students in Educational Computer Games

November 28, 2011

When students engage in educational computer games, do they fare better talking with a mentor face-to-face or chatting online with a ‘virtual’ mentor? In her recent dissertation, former WCER researcher Elizabeth Bagley finds that mentoring via online chat is indeed a viable method for mentoring in the context of such educational games. A bolder interpretation of the results suggests that since mentoring in virtual and face-to-face conditions produced similar effects on players, this kind of mentoring could be automated and still retain the quality of interactions and players’ level of engagement. More information is available here.