Athabasca University’s School of Computing and Information Systems will improve the critical thinking, problem solving and innovation skills in Canadians through a community-based, educational, online game that allows users to play against each other in a set of sub games, each focussing on improving these skills. The game utilizes motivational techniques to encourage players to keep playing, learning analytics to increase users’ awareness of their skill levels and it personalizes the gaming experience. Within its first year this game will increase the meta-cognitive skills of 1,000 users by 25 per cent. per cent.
