API - ResultEduc: uma comunicação entre os resultados dos jogos digitais para uma melhor avaliação do aprendizado

Abstract

Despite the advancements of the Educational Digital Games (JDE - acronym for Jogos Digitais Educacionais) in the pedagogical and institutional area to evaluate the results of students and clients, there is a major obstacle for the expansion of its credibility due to the few reliable resources to verify the learning gained. This project studies a better system for an integration between the result of these JDE evaluations and the collaborative gaming platforms. Gaming platforms are systems of colaborative desenvelopment of learning objects, whether virtual or "real", that create environments where professionals from different subjective areas may collaborate, develop and share their learning objects, thus enabling a better assessment of education professionals towards students. These ones must understand what needs to be improved in their learning and how they can do it, both the reconfiguration of games, during the evolutionary phase, through the analysis of student performance, as well as the production of analytical reports for their teachers. However, the challenge is to guarantee a better assurance on these assessments, through the reports of digital games, as well as their communicability with the gaming platforms, ensuring a reliability, compliance and security in data communication. This paper aims to solve the following research problem: How to transmit the results of digital games with a collaborative platform? This paper has the research hypothesis to investigate if is possible to gather the results of digital games, organize them according to the player’s profile and insert them in the database system of a platform through an API (Application Programming Interface). In order to carry out this essay, some case studies were developed with the ColabEduc Collaborative Gamming Platform, as well as communication alternatives among these games and the platform, with different game engineering.