Are Educational Games Engaging and Motivating Moroccan Students to Learn Physics?

Authors

  • Khouna Jalal Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz -Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez,
  • Ajana Lotfi École Normale Supérieure Fez,Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco.
  • Rhazal Ahmed Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz -Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez,
  • El Mokri Abdelilah École Normale Supérieure Fez,Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i16.10641

Keywords:

educational game, motivation, engagement, interaction, learners, physics, Competency-based approach

Abstract


Nowadays and since the year 2000, the Moroccan educational system like all the other system of educations evolve towards putting more and more emphasis on the Competency-based approach rather than learning contents. Specific pedagogical tool are necessary to develop such competences, especially with the well-known rupture between teaching practices and the digital culture of young people, marked by the increased use of information and communication technologies. Pedagogies that rely on the use of educational games emerged as a solution to change traditional practices .In this sense, we have experimented with the use of educational game circuit warz in a physics classroom .We have restricted its use to the lesson of the voltage divider and we have compared its contributions to those of a classical teaching method .The results found a huge improvement in areas like motivation, engagement and interaction inter-learners.

Author Biographies

Khouna Jalal, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz -Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez,

Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Research in Didactics of Sciences and Technology (ILRDST)

Ajana Lotfi, École Normale Supérieure Fez,Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco.

TICFS Laboratory, École Normale Supérieure Fez,

Rhazal Ahmed, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz -Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez,

Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Research in Didactics of Sciences and Technology (ILRDST)

El Mokri Abdelilah, École Normale Supérieure Fez,Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco.

TICFS Laboratory, École Normale Supérieure Fez,

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Published

2019-08-29

How to Cite

Jalal, K., Lotfi, A., Ahmed, R., & Abdelilah, E. M. (2019). Are Educational Games Engaging and Motivating Moroccan Students to Learn Physics?. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 14(16), pp. 66–82. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i16.10641

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 16 (2019)

Section

Papers

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