Game-based learning and skills training in E-sport

Learn how to use game-based learning to create competency building and engaging teaching. We offer a practical introduction on how to incorporate gaming elements in your existing teaching material and curriculum, but also how to design your teaching based on skills and competences acquired through gaming.

Game-based learning can be a good approach to engaging and competency building teaching, if done right. With this course we offer a practical introduction on how to incorporate gaming elements in your existing teaching material and curriculum, but also how to design your teaching based on skills and competencies acquired through gaming.

The course will include hands-on examples of existing learning designs as well as production of your own designs, tailored to fit your subject, school system and experience. The final day of the course will be spent at the EASIE Conference.

The aim of this course is to provide teachers at all levels of education with the basic knowledge and skill set required to introduce gaming and e-sports into their classrooms.

Day 1: Presentations on the use of games in teaching; learning outcomes, student engagement and points to consider. Implementation of e-sports in the classroom. Workshop: How is game-based learning experienced by the students – testing of learning designs.
Day 2: Resources: examples of free games/websites, what should you look out for when looking for useful materials? Design of “loose assignments” which are not based on specific games. Workshop: Production of learning designs to bring home and use in your own classroom
Day 3: EASIE Conference

As a participant:

• can you express yourself in English;
• are you a team player;
• you have a didactic, creative and innovative mind;
• are you prepared to be inspired with an open mind and to inspire others to pass on what you have learned;
• are you prepared to transfer the international knowledge you have learned to other contexts;
• you are prepared to translate what you have learned into effective change in your own classroom practice and to share this within your department and beyond;
• are you willing to commit to the Erasmus day in which you want to share what you have learned with colleagues from other participating school institutions;
• are you willing to commit to the Erasmus podcast of Catholic Education Flanders to share what you have learned with the listeners of the podcast.
  

Participants in our 2026-2027 consortium participate for free, those who are not members of our consortium, please contact kevin.weytens@katholiekonderwijs.vlaanderen.