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Posts tagged with: game-based learning
Can Games and Badges Motivate College Students to Learn?
By Sandra Law 6 August 2015 @ 11:16am Comments (1)ww2.kqed.org - Discusses the role that game-based learning and gamification can play in post-secondary education. Highlights the work done by University of Victoria professor, David Leach, in his "Human Uses of Technology" course in which half of the class...Minecraft meets ecology simulation in an open-world educational game
By Sandra Law 6 August 2015 @ 11:01amwww.polygon.com - Strange Loop Games has an ambitious project to create a new kind of open world multiplayer game where the survival of every player on the server depends on careful management of in-game resources. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education,...Effective Digital Learning Games Blend the Virtual and the Real, Study Finds
By Sandra Law 3 July 2015 @ 5:11pmblogs.edweek.org - Looks at role that mixed reality games can play in collaborative learning in the K-12 setting.Katie Salen on the Power of Game-Based Learning (Big Thinkers Series)
By Sandra Law 25 November 2014 @ 3:39pmwww.edutopia.org - Katie Salen, executive director of nonprofit design studio Institute of Play, offers a look inside the ground-breaking school in New York City that she co-founded, Quest to Learn. The school uses core principles of game design as a framework to help...Games and Learning Publishing Council
By Sandra Law 25 November 2014 @ 3:18pmwww.gamesandlearning.org - Gamesandlearning.org is a project of the Games and Learning Publishing Council (GLPC). The GLPC is a group of game developers, industry leaders, investors, scholars and education experts who seek to unlock the power of gaming-based learning.Online Games and Interest-Driven Learning are Transformative for Today's Young Learners...
By Sandra Law 30 September 2014 @ 12:28pmunescochair.blogs.uoc.edu - An interview with games and learning scholar Constance Steinkuhler on how games are an interest-based learning format that is especially effective for a cohort in North America that is disengaged from formal learning - teenage boys.Outcomes of game-based learning: Research roundup
By Sandra Law 17 September 2014 @ 3:11pmjournalistsresource.org - A collection of recent academic scholarshyip that addresses the use and effectiveness of digital and game-based learning in the classroom and beyond.Knowledge Guru: 100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources
By Sandra Law 17 September 2014 @ 3:01pmwww.theknowledgeguru.com - List of 100 articles related to games and learning. Some of them are research-based, while others just offer an interesting perspective to spark discussion.
