Connecting Video Games, Teaching, Learn

Catalog description

This course will examine the pedagogy of games and the potential applications of the teaching and learning strategies found in these informal, out-of-school settings to the content of classrooms. Participants will examine the concepts of motivation and play, and how it is possible (as game designers have) to make learning so challenging and fun that students spend hours engaging in the activity. Throughout the course, participants will explore board games, card games, video games and online games.