Digital Games and Learning
Professor Sara de Freitas editor Professor Paul Maharg editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published:31st Mar '11
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How can gaming and simulation technologies be used to engage learners? How can they be used to motivate and accelerate learning? What are their main strengths for learning? In this book, contributors explore such questions to help you understand the paradigm shift from conventional learning environments to learning in games and simulations.This title analyses the variety of play implemented within educational games and simulations and gives detailed examples of cutting-edge application in a wide range of disciplines. The popularity of entertainment gaming over the last decades has more recently led to the use of games for non-entertainment purposes, such as training and business support. The emergence of the serious games movement has capitalized on this interest in leisure gaming and helped to spread applications from the home into schools, colleges, universities and out into professional training and continuing professional development. The movement raises many significant issues and challenges for us. How can gaming and simulation technologies be used to engage learners? How can they be used to motivate and accelerate learning? What are their main strengths for learning? The contributors explore these, and many other questions, to help the reader to understand the paradigm shift from conventional learning environments to learning in games and simulations.
‘Digital Games and Learning is a much-needed addition to the burgeoning field of serious gaming. The book's emphasis on issues that matter to a wide range of stakeholders - from practitioners, to researchers, to policy-makers - asks us to look beyond departmental, institutional, and professional silos in order to advance practice, research, and theory.' George Veletsianos, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
‘Digital Games and Learning represents a valuable snapshot of the current state of the field, one which builds on more than a decade of research on games-based learning, one which brings together both veterans and newcomers, one which is sure to spark more debates.' Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism and Cinematic Art, University of Southern California, USA
This book asks key questions about Games Based Learning (GBL) and offers potential answers from a range of researchers, practitioners and professionals... This book tackles the teoretical, cultural and practical issues in GBL with mostly good insight and relevance. -- Paul Dolan * Learning & Teaching *
Educational policy-makers and researchers in the area of digital learning and serious gaming will find this a valuable book to read. -- Jonathan C. Roach, St. Thomas University (Miami Gardens, FL) * Teaching Theology & Religion *
ISBN: 9781441198709
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320 pages