Serious games effects: an overview

Games und Gamification were declared by the New Media Consortium as one of the important trends in E-Leanring for the near future. If the NMC's assumptions are correct, we need a discussion on whether Games, especially so-called Serious Games indeed help in learning. The paper wants to give an overview on the state-of-the-art of what can be expected by Serious Games, according to the research already done. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.