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Robin Sharma

Ph.D. Candidate

Robin has expertise in creation of curriculum guides around serious and "commercial-off-the-shelf" (COTS) games. Before joining the TLC lab, he led the "Games for Learning" program at UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP). His thesis focuses on theory-based design of games for building geometrical understanding of adolescents. He is using a “value-added experimental design”, to evaluate the effectiveness of narrative as an instructional feature in games for mathematics. He is the winner of the inaugural TLC Lab video game tournament.
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Projects

Discovery Tour Curriculum Guides
World's first interactive, gaming curriculum guides for teachers.
How to apply theories of learning and game-design to create educational games? Are such digital games effective in schools?  

Awards

FRQSC Doctoral Research Fellowship
International Doctoral Research Award
GPS Graduate Mobility Award
MITACS Accelerate Award

Publications

How teachers’ user experience of digital curriculum resources impacts acceptance of game-based learning and teaching

R. Sharma, C. Tan, D. Gomez, C. Xu, A.K. Dubé

American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, 2024

Impact of “narrative” as an instructional feature on adolescents’ understanding of geometry

R. Sharma, A.K. Dubé

34th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2024

A systematic review of approaches for building adolescents’ geometrical understanding

R. Sharma, A.K. Dubé

International Society of Learning Sciences, Buffalo, USA, 2024 Jun

Discovery Tour Curriculum Guides to Improve Teachers' Adoption of Serious Gaming

C. Xu, R. Sharma, A.K. Dubé

E. Champion, J. Francisco Hiriart Vera, Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark?, 2023, pp. 35-64

Discovery Tour Game Curriculum Guides for Teachers: Assassin’s Creed

C. Xu, R. Sharma

Antiquity in Media Studies Conference, 2022

Game Design for Mathematics Education

R. Sharma, S.P. Lajoie, A.K. Dubé

S. Selvamari, Sabeena P. S., Mathematics Education: Research and Innovations, Mathematics Education: Research and Innovations, 2022, pp. 25-37