Learning Games: Using Play to Teach
Playing to learn and learning to play are two fundamental concepts of the human experience. Learning games, often associated with the idea of “serious play”, can refer to either games …
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The North American Simulation and Gaming Association is THE home for trainers, teachers, and educators who use active learning methods to increase engagement, enhance retention, and improve performance.
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Specialize your network with Special Interest Groups
ISAGA (International Simulation and Gaming Association) invites NASAGA members to help with a new initiative to start Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of people interested in specific aspects of gaming and …
Games for Learning: Three Fields of Study
When I began working in games research about a decade ago, games for learning was still the catch-all term to describe any intersection of the two ideas. Over the last …
Game Learning: Authentic Experience
A major part of experiential learning is providing the learner with authentic experience. We can use games and game learning to simulate authentic experiences to a degree that normal instruction …
Narrative Learning with Games
What’s in a story? Essentially everyone old enough to process language knows the basics of story and storytelling. We know that stories usually have characters, a setting, a plot, a …