The document discusses challenges in designing serious games for learning. It provides examples of how games can challenge players' expectations and habits to foster rethinking. However, a game's designed experience may be interpreted differently by players based on their prior experiences and context. Therefore, serious games are better suited as learning tools that provoke questions, rather than directly teaching answers.

1. Dr. Konstantin Mitgutsch / Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab Challenges in Serious Game Design The Transfer is NOT the Transformation Twitter: @MitgutschK

2. Serious Learning & Media? Twitter: @MitgutschK

4. Serious Games@State - Mitgutsch - Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab - 05/27/2011 Twitter: @MitgutschK

5. Serious game design must consider the gap between the designed experience and its interpretation by the players. Takeaway #1 Twitter: @MitgutschK

6. The players‘ prior experiences , the context , their connection to the topic or problem, and scope of action all impact the serious play experience. Takeaway #2 Twitter: @MitgutschK

7. The transfer is NOT the transformation! Takeaway #3 Twitter: @MitgutschK

8. Serious games are learning tools – but not teaching instruments. Takeaway #4 Twitter: @MitgutschK

9. Don’t teach answers, but design provoking questions Takeaway #5 Twitter: @MitgutschK