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Item Game on : redesign of a teacher professional development platform for use with the serious game alien rescue(2016-05) Stamets, Sara E.; Liu, Min,Ed. D.; French, KarenThis report explores the design and development process of a teacher professional development platform and digital teacher’s manual for use with the serious game Alien Rescue. It begins with a comprehensive overview of current best practices informing professional development, specifically for use with serious educational games and other educational technologies. The design considerations, methods, layout, and goals of the platform, called the Alien Rescue Teacher Portal (the Portal), are described. Evaluation methods and subsequent revisions made to the Portal are then detailed. Finally, overall evaluation of the process and product in light of best practices and future directions are discussed.Item Strategies to improve collaboration in a problem-based learning environment : Alien Rescue(2017-05) Moudgalya, Sukanya Kannan; Liu, Min, Ed. D.There is an ever growing need to research and develop pedagogical strategies that cater to the 21st-century skills. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is one such instructional strategy. There are currently many PBL environments, but for this report, I use a PBL environment called ‘Alien Rescue’ as an example. PBL has many goals that it wishes to achieve. In this report, I highlight the importance of five such goals. I then review the practices in Alien Rescue to see which goals it supports the best and which goal could need improvements. I then choose to focus on one of the very important goals, namely, collaboration. I again review the literature to find strategies that support collaborative learning in PBL. Finally, I contextualize these strategies to Alien Rescue. I make specific suggestions that will improve collaboration, offer implementation tactics for these suggestions, and also give ways to evaluate the effectiveness of the suggestions in Alien Rescue. I hope to help in the research and development process of Alien Rescue with this report.