Games and Gaming

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Games and Gaming

Multiple Realities and Multiple Dimensions for Teaching and Learning

May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

New developments in technology open doors for new environments and dimensions for teaching and learning. The number of educational institutions and programs using 3D virtual environments, such as S…

Powerful But Not a Panacea: Virtual Worlds as a Tool for Situational Learning

February 19, 2008

Once relegated to the fringes of the games industry, virtual worlds such as Second Life are now viewed as a promising instructional platform. College instructors use this emerging technology to t…

Emerging Worlds: Transformative Technologies for Teaching and Learning

September 17, 2007

Web 2.0 projects have rapidly expanded into a world of social media. From blogs to podcasts, millions of people have published and shared a growing amount of digital content. At the same time vir…

Cognition, Learning, and Literacy in Virtual Worlds

March 28, 2007 | A session at the ELI 2007 Spring Focus Session

This presentation will detail the intellectual practices that constitute gameplay in virtual worlds (for example, collaborative problem solving, informal scientific reasoning, computational liter…

Team Building in Virtual Worlds

January 18, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007

The use of virtual worlds provides a means for educators to bring a simulated real-world experience to the classroom. This case study will explore how undergraduates were able to go beyond the conf…

Second Life: The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World (MMVW)

February 16, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2005

Technical developments in MMVWs continue to advance dramatically. In this session, we will tour Second Life, a MMVW created by each user and simultaneously played by hundreds of people around the w…