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Reflections on Play, Pedagogy, and World of Warcraft: September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways The video game World of Warcraft was the text studied, the laboratory, and the classroom for the online course "Warcraft: Culture, Gender, and Identity"…
Simulation Technologies in Higher Education: Uses, Trends, and Implications: February 9, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin focuses on the rapid growth in the use of simulation technologies in higher education and the implications this will have for information technology planning and poli…
Higher Education as Virtual Conversation: September 15, 2008

© 2008 Sarah Robbins-Bell EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008) Higher Education as Virtual Conversation Sarah Robbins-Bell (“Intellagirl Tully”) Sarah R…
Envisioning the Educational Possibilities of User-Created Virtual Worlds: April 1, 2008

Educational games and simulations can engage students in higher-level cognitive thinking, such as interpreting, analyzing, discovering, evaluating, acting, and problem solving. Recent technical a…
2007 Horizon Report: January 1, 2007

The 2007 Horizon Report looks at six selected areas--"User-Created Content," "Social Networking," "Mobile Phones," "Virtual Worlds," "New Scholarship …
Serious Games: Incorporating Video Games in the Classroom: January 1, 2006

Serious Games: Incorporating Video Games in the Classroom Games designed using sound pedagogy actively engage the Net Generation in learning By Leonard A. Annetta , Marshall R. Murray …
Games and Learning: January 1, 2006

Viewpoint Games and Learning Digital games have the potential to bring play back to the learning experience By Diana G. Oblinger From a very early age, we learn from games and pla…
Simulations, Games, and Learning: January 1, 2006

Exploring games and education is inherently controversial. Even the name implies games don't involve work. However, today's games are complex, require collaboration and strenuous time c…
ELI Innovations & Implementations—SciFair: Game Worlds for Learning: January 1, 2006

Cornell's SciCentr is an online museum of virtual worlds that engages young people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Its SciFair program helps students build virtual worlds…
Gaming the System: What Higher Education Can Learn from Multiplayer Online Worlds: January 1, 2002

A chapter from the The Internet and the University: Forum 2001 . The entertainment technology industry invests vast sums in research and development to create the advanced simulations, character…

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