{"id":2841,"date":"2020-06-29T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2020-07-03T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T19:50:58","slug":"discussing-the-need-for-mobile-serious-games-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/29\/discussing-the-need-for-mobile-serious-games-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing The Need For Mobile Serious Games In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/06\/smartphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2842\" width=\"767\" height=\"482\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ubc-white-color has-text-color has-background has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#969de9\">Since this week&#8217;s theme is mobile games, I decided to do some mining for articles about educational mobile games. Through my research, I found a couple of relevant articles but I picked the one mentioned above as it is close to home. I read the article and agreed with most of it. While I understand the potential of mobile serious games for learning and the growing market of mobile phones in Africa, I am still doubtful how effective these games will be if they need internet access. I wrote about  the lack of internet\/WiFi connection in Africa before. It is a reality though. Game developers should factor that in when creating serious games for the African market. Definitely the focus should be placed on designing offline mobile serious games. You can find the article at the following <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/elearningindustry.com\/need-mobile-serious-games-in-africa-discussing\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this week&#8217;s theme is mobile games, I decided to do some mining for articles about educational mobile games. Through my research, I found a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/29\/discussing-the-need-for-mobile-serious-games-in-africa\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discussing The Need For Mobile Serious Games In Africa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71877,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}