Best Paper Award to Boglarka Brezovszky
ECGBL Conference presented the award for the Best PhD Paper and Presentation to Boglarka Brezovszky, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Education.
The paper is based on the work of a multidisciplinary research group, led by Academy Professor Erno Lehtinen. Boglarka Brezovszky and other researchers are aiming to create a new computer game, which would help children to improve their problem solving skills in mathematics.
The title of the award-winning paper is Training Flexible and Adaptive Arithmetic Problem Solving Skills through Exploration with numbers: the Development of NumberNavigation Game. The co-authors are Erno Lehtinen, Jake McMullen, Gabriela Rodriguez and Koen Veermans.
The 7th European Conference on Games Based Learning provided a forum to exchange ideas and best practices among researchers and practitioners in the field of Game-Based Learning.