Designing Online Information Literacy Games Students Want to Play

Before launching into information literacy game design libraries would be well advised to avail themselves of this book. Each chapter is replete with graphs and tables illustrating the open-ended nature of game building. The authors do not shy away from reporting on the pitfalls met along the way, and this alone could save potential developers many hours of hard work. BiblioBouts is a work in progress that will need regular tweaking as the technology improves and more is learned about students’ engagement with online learning. . . .The book is recommended reading, as it is well documented and covers the complete game production cycle. * Australian Library Journal *
The best practices in this book would be valuable to someone new to the surprisingly complex world of designing information literacy games in a school environment. Librarians and educators can avoid falling into the trap of creating a quiz wrapped in a bad educational game shell by following the advice and examples in the book. -- Scott Nicholson, Because Play Matters game lab, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
This is an excellent resource for librarians, teachers, designers, and others interested in creating digital games to teach students how to locate, select, and evaluate high quality information resources for academic use. The book guides readers from student learning needs assessment through game design and evaluation, using the authors’ own information literacy game, BiblioBouts, as a detailed case study and design example. Of particular interest are the sets of best practices for game design and game support, enabling readers to learn valuable lessons from the authors’ own design and testing experiences. -- Denise E. Agosto, Associate Professor, The College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University