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Information literacy is an essential skill in today’s society and information search is an essential part of it. These skills need constant training and maintenance and thus, innovative and engaging approaches to teach and learn information literacy and searching are needed. In this paper, we present a serious game to enhance information literacy skills, focusing on skills in seeking information. The experimental research setting widely used in search engine development provides means to gamify information seeking .
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This work was partially funded by the European Union Erasmus+ programme with grant number 2021-1-FI01-KA220-SCH000029713.
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Arvola, P., Alamettälä, T. (2022). Enhancing Information Literacy Skills: A Game Design for Seeking Information and Making Queries. In: Kiili, K., Antti, K., de Rosa, F., Dindar, M., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Bellotti, F. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13647. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22124-8_33
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