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Higher education programs
- CUNY Games Network"Dedicated to encouraging research, scholarship and teaching in the developing field of games-based learning."
- MIT Game LabThe Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop new approaches for applied game design and construction.
- Center for Games & Learning: MidAmerica Nazarene UniversityThe Center for Games & Learning at MNU's Mabee Library sponsors game design and game research for use in educational settings.
Gaming Research Hubs
- Serious Game Society
"The Serious Games Society (SGS) is the think tank where the future of games for learning can be discussed and put in practice." - Gamasutra
A site all about "the art and business of making games". - Game Studies
"Game Studies is a non-profit, open-access, crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research".
Books, Films, and Tutorials
The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook by
Following Karl Kapp's earlier book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, this Fieldbook provides a step-by-step approach to implementing the concepts from the Gamification book with examples, tips, tricks, and worksheets to help a learning professional or faculty member put the ideas into practice. The Online Workbook, designed largely for students using the original book as a textbook, includes quizzes, worksheets and fill-in-the-blank areas that will help a student to better understand the ideas, concepts and elements of incorporating gamification into learning.
ISBN: 9781118677247Publication Date: 2013-10-11
Videogames and Education by
Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. He discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding video games, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and video games cultural phenomenon.
ISBN: 9780765619969Publication Date: 2008-10-15
Persuasive Games by
An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties. Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric. Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change these positions themselves, leading to potentially significant long-term social change. Bogost looks at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and learning.
ISBN: 9780262268912Publication Date: 2010-08-13
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