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In general, indigenous students in Taiwan have worse learning results than regular students, especially in History. Indigenous students prefer dynamic, visual and situated learning, which can be designed as game-based learning. Therefore, this study aims to develop a digital board game to improve their learning results. “Brave across the Taiwan Strait” is a memory digital board game, which matches the historical events of the Qing Dynasty with Taiwan place name cards. We interviewed 7 experts to set up the appropriate instructive object and game mechanism. This game also references from the “Ziche Zocke” and includes a website, Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D printing technology.

This study was designed based on the pre- and post- test of single target group under the quasi-experimental standard. The target group was 40 indigenous students from two indigenous elementary schools in Yilan. Students had to complete the learning achievement test and learning attitude performance pre-test three days before, and take the post- test after the game. The results showed that through the evaluation of the learning achievement test and learning attitude performance in the post- test, the students showed significant learning improvement and learning effectiveness in understanding the Qing Dynasty playing this digital board game.