All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, 2023 |

All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, 2023 by The National University of Advanced Legal Studies

NUALS’ All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, January 16-17, 2023
Objectives of the Competition
Orientation Sessions
Scheme of Evaluation
Key Dates
Address for communication

NUALS’ All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, January 16-17, 2023

The NUALS All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, 2023 is proposed in the context of the adoption of innovative pedagogy in teaching and learning law at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi. The present competition is announced in light of the successful completion of the First Law Learning Game Design Inter-Semester Competition held in NUALS in the month of September 2022. NUALS’ experience in the implementation of gamification of LL.B program is reflected in the release of Books on Gamification which in fact speaks for the volume to which gamification is imbibed in University academics. Generating a pool of games- virtual and physical- for learning law, both substantive and procedural is the task that NUALS has taken up proudly to contribute to the present-day world of education, entertainment, and engagement.

Objectives of the Competition

Registration for the Competition

The Competition is open for participation by students pursuing undergraduate law degree at any institution /university recognized by the Bar Council of India. A Certificate issued by the Head of the institution/ university showing that the participant is an undergraduate student of the institution/university is mandatory. Students can participate either individually or in groups, but not exceeding five in each group. The games to be designed for the competition could be either virtual or physical and the winners are rewarded separately for each category.

The registration fee for a group is Rs 1000/ and that for an individual participant is Rs 500/. Along with the registration fee, the participant has to upload a recorded video of a time span not exceeding 10 minutes of the Scheme of the game specifying the mode, whether online or offline, and a detailed description of the scheme justifying how it serves the purpose of learning law. The proposed scheme should also keep compliance with the factsheet released. The participants are free to concentrate either on part or whole of the specific facts and laws highlighted in the fact sheet and design games based on the same. The registered team as a whole or the individual participant as the case may be can only be part of the video uploaded. The video can be uploaded in Google form (maximum file size is 100 MB).

The registration fee can be paid through this link: https://www.nuals.ac.in/Payment.aspx. Click on the registration fee tab and complete the payment. The payment link will be open from 3rd November 2022.

After completing the payment, please complete the registration in the google form link: https://forms.gle/5Ezn18fjZiyzjcYq8. The payment reference number should be mentioned in the google form.

The registration process shall be deemed to be complete only after registering through the google form after the payment of the prescribed fee along with the submission of the video and the certificate from the head of the University on or before the last date of registration.

Orientation Sessions

After the screening and shortlisting of the candidates based on the video uploaded, orientation sessions will be conducted. It would enable the participants to understand the basic idea behind the competition and to facilitate the designing of games satisfying the fundamentals which could help in learning law. Games must be so designed as to enable the potential players /students to understand the basic principles of law, provisions of the relevant statutes, their application, rationale, possible contentions, arguments, supporting judgments, and submissions relating to particular facts and laws. Orientation sessions are open only to the shortlisted candidates.

Scheme of Evaluation

Selection Committee (Preliminary Round)

The designed framework of games is to be presented by the shortlisted candidates before the Selection Committee in the Preliminary Round. At this stage, the participant must disclose the mode of the game – whether virtual or physical and an overview of the draft design specifying the focal area and an overview of the proposed game. It is also required to convince the Committee as to how the draft games could help in learning law and the expected outcome of the proposal. A self-assessment of its effectiveness is to be presented before the Selection Committee along with a write-up containing the above requirements. A time span of 15-20 minutes will be available to the participants in this stage. The Committee has the discretion to reject or accept the proposal at this stage with or without remarks. The participants may also be given a chance to revisit the structural framework if the Committee deems fit. Four or five teams will be shortlisted for participation in the Final Round before the Judging Committee. The participants have to play the designed games before the Judging Committee. Each group / individual participant will get 40-45 minutes to complete administering the game. The Preliminary Round will be held online on December 19, 2022.

Judging Committee (Final Round)

The participants have to submit the final report of the designed games and present the game before the Judging Committee. Both virtual and physical games will be evaluated based on the below well-defined criteria. The designed games will be scrutinized by a Judging Committee and the decision of the Committee will be final. The Judging Committee possesses the authority to deny prizes if the games designed are not up to the expected standard and lack compliance with the objectives of the Game Designing Competition. The Final round will be held offline in NUALS Campus, Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala.

Criteria for Evaluation of Games

Interpretation of facts and laws
Importance given to legal issues and provisions in law
Content, Clarity, Accessibility
Scope of learning law through the designed games
Quality of the content
Retentive attention span of potential student players
Scope of knowledge generation
Innovation in feedback techniques
Inspiration to continue learning
Level of engagement
Prospect for recall and retention
Prospect for Education, Engagement and Entertainment
Level of Cognition, Coherence and Communication

Key Dates

Sl. No.	Date	Event
1.	*November 2, 2022*	*-Release of Fact sheet , Guidelines and Launching of Website by NUALS*
2.	*November 28, 2022*	*Last date for registration and uploading of Video on Scheme of Game*
3.	*December 5, 2022*	*Intimation of selection of participants*
4.	*December 10, 2022*	*Orientation sessions for Shortlisted participants (Online)*
5.	*December 19, 2022*	*Presentation before the Selection Committee in the Preliminary Round (Online)*
6.	*December 22, 2022*	*Declaration of Result of Preliminary Round*
7.	*January 16 – 17, 2023*	*Dates of the Competition -Before the Judging Committee in the Final Round- (Offline)*

Reward for Winners (Separately for Virtual and Physical Games)

First Prize – Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 /

Second Prize- Rs 20,000/

Third Prize – Rs 10,000/

The Judging committee reserves the right to announce the cash prize based on the criteria. If no games comply with the standard criteria, the judging committee has the discretion to deny the cash prize. NUALS has adopted the policy that no home team shall take part in the Competition instead they would be trainers/facilitators for the Competition. The winners of the NUALS All India Law Learning Game Design Competition, January 2023 will be awarded cash prize and a certificate of appreciation. For all those who participate in the competition, a Certificate of Participation will be issued by the University.

All the participants will be provided with accommodation by the University from January 15^th evening till January 18^th morning. Travelling and all other allied expenditures are to be met by the participants.

All correspondence regarding the Competition is to be done through the email id nlgamedesign@nuals.ac.in

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