Goal-based scenario for high school students

Abstract

A learning environment architecture called Goal-Based Scenario (GBS) has been designed, which provides motivation, context, and specific challenges, as well as access to information. GBSs are courses structured as a series of scenarios, each involving the pursuit of a clear concrete mission through a set of activities designed to teach a target set of skills. This article illustrates the GBS approach through a description of one of the example GBSs which have been built, called Broadcast News, which teaches social studies to high school students by allowing them to determine the content of a television news story.