"Your future starts here" is a common line which devalues the learner from the off.
Furthermore, classrooms separate the learner from design, production and integration of learning into community life.
This prevents the learner from merely duplicating the characters and symbols that compose the text and solution of the example.
Unfortunately, current 'education' systems focus almost exclusively on the individual learner and have separated the learner from the praxis of the lived life.
A dragon guard (who acts as a virtual enemy that closes doors) poses a question to the learner from the domain of geography.
While this will not prevent a learner from asking a friend to write an assignment for them, it will prevent the learner from representing any published content as their own, one of the most prevalent forms of cheating on college campuses.
Still, there is an incentive for a learner to be as precise as possible because providing the best information possible opens the possibility for better assistance to the learner from the system.
The Active Learning paradigm is one such method aimed at achieving this goal by transforming the learner from a passive participant in the information gathering process to an active one.
Questionnaires can solicit direct and precise answers, but this would endanger the high level motivation provided by educational games because such use would require stopping the learner from playing and requesting her/him to answer questions.
