Digital Games and Learning

‘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

Edited by Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg

January 2011 • 320 Pages
PB • 9781441198709 •
£22.99 / €39.95

Contents

Acknowledgments \ Notes on Contributors \ Foreword Henry Jenkins \ Introduction Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg \ Part I: Theoria - Theoretical Positions \ 1. Digital Games and Learning: Modelling learning experiences in the digital
age Paul Maharg and Sara de Freitas \ 2. Four-dimensional Consideration of Feedback in Serious Games Ian Dunwell, Sara de Freitas and Steve Jarvis \ 3. A Complex Systems Framework for Simulating Teaching and Learning David Gibson \ Part II: Cultura - Cultural Perspectives \ 4. Revolution: Experiential learning through virtual role play Russell Francis \ 5. Stealth Learning in Online Games Esther MacCallum-Stewart \ 6. Murder on Grimm Isle: The design of a game-based learning environment Michele Dickey \ 7. Are Games All Child’s Play? Scot Osterweil and Eric Klopfer \ Part III: Praxis - Theory into practice \ 8. Constructions of Games, Teachers and Young People in Formal Learning Richar Sandford, Keri Facer and Ben Williamson \ 9. Games and Simulations in Informal Science Education Kurt Squire and Nathan J. Patterson \ 10. From Master to Games-Master: Managing disequilibrium and scaffolding in simulation-based learning Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar \ 11. Designing Serious Games for Cultural Heritage Purposes Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Giulia Panizza, Matteo Pellegrino and Ludovica Primavera \ Index

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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.

Sara de Freitas FRSA is Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry, UK.

Paul Maharg is Professor of Legal Education at Northumbria University School of Law, UK