Uma API web para suporte à análise de aprendizagem em jogos digitais educacionais para o contexto da disciplina de química

Abstract

Digital games that teach the Periodic Table (TP) of Chemistry can help in the teaching-learning process at various levels and contexts. However, there is a ongoing monitoring challenge stemming from the need to understand the evolution and possible difficulties of each student, in addition to identifying to what extent the proposed game is being effective or not in this process. For this, it is important to collect interactions carried out within the game in order to develop mechanisms for behavior analysis of the student, and thus allow a better monitoring of the process of absorption of the knowledge. In addition, such mechanisms can contribute to the identification of possible improvements in the user experience. In this sense, this work proposes a application programming interface (API) for integrating digital game data educational system for teaching chemistry with management platforms that present student performance and learning indicators. The API aims to facilitate the analysis and monitoring the effectiveness and progress of students who use the game as a tool learning process, as well as identifying possible improvements in the user experience. O work also suggests the creation of a client-side API, which can communicate with different development tools and send more specific and detailed data about the game and player interaction.