Author(s)

Yuan Yuan¹, Kun Fu², Barend Pieter Venter^1*, Thomas Hainey³

¹Division of Culture and Creativity, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, China.
²Digital Media Art Department, Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, Fuzhou University, Xiamen, China.
³School of Engineering and Computing, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK.

Citizen morality reflects civilization and is significant to society. Ethics education for improving morality, especially in China, may fail because of its reliance on lecture-based teaching. Game-based learning presents an innovative approach to ethics education. This paper identifies problems in tertiary ethics education and reviews relevant game design principles before establishing a framework for designing educational games that may assist in ethics education. It then proposes a game design model for teaching ethics.

Games for Learning, Framework, Ethics Teaching, Pedagogy, Game Design

Yuan, Y., Fu, K., Venter, B. P., & Hainey, T. (2019) Ethics as a Game? Towards a Framework for Game Design. Sociology Mind, 9, 135-150. doi: 10.4236/sm.2019.93010.