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.
Previous Degree(s):
M.Sc. Mathematics Education, University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia
B.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics, University of Delhi
Previous Degree(s):
M.Sc. Mathematics Education, University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia
B.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics, University of Delhi
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
A systematic review of approaches for building adolescents’ geometrical understanding
R. Sharma, A.K. Dubé
International Society of Learning Sciences, Buffalo, USA, 2024
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
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
C. Xu, R. Sharma, A.K. Dubé
Technology, Mind & Society Conference, 2021
