Falguni Vyas

One of the shortcomings of online learning proves to be the decreased amount of or lack of social interaction which negatively affects other aspects of learning, such as cognitive and motivational. This thesis dives deep into the research surrounding online learning in an effort to learn the best practices to design a product that alleviates the problems seen in online learning. It then focuses on the design of a collaborative multiplayer learning game that intends to teach digital electronics concepts. The result is a 2-player browser game that facilitates collaborative learning and the practice of digital circuits in an engaging manner.

In this game design, the players are stuck inside an old computer that they must fix to be able to get out. Each level is a digital circuits problem that the players must solve together by connecting the correct logic gates to the empty nodes, collecting gates as they go. The target demographic is undergraduate students in ECE or CS courses.