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  • Making Games for Impact

    by Kurt Squire ...
    Designing games for learning: case studies show how to incorporate impact goals, build a team, and work with experts to create an effective game.Digital games for learning are now commonplace, used in settings that range from K–12 education to advanced medical training. In this book, Kurt Squire examines the ways that games make an impact on learning, investigating how designers and developers ... Read more

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  • Design-based Research

    Clarifying the Terms. A Special Issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences

    Edited by Sasha A. Barab, Kurt Squire ...
    Over a decade ago the concept of "design experiments" was introduced because of the belief that many of questions could not be adequately addressed by laboratory-based experiments. Since then, design-based research as a term has grown in popularity and significance. The core manuscripts of this special issue respond to the questions: What constitutes design-based research? Why is it important? ... Read more

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  • Real Time Research: Improvisational Game Scholarship

    Real-Time Research is a new kind of on-the-spot scholarship. At a series of conferences the authors of this book asked academics educators and designers to collaborate on short-term improvisational research projects - usually completed within 48 hours. What they found out - by way of sock puppets video interviews and lots of critical game play - might just surprise you. ... Read more

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  • Games, Learning, and Society

    Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age

    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    This volume is the first reader on video games and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture and games as twenty-first-century pedagogy, it demonstrates the depth and breadth of scholarship on games and learning to date. The chapters represent some of the most influential thinkers, designers and writers in the emerging field of games and learning - including James Paul Gee, Soren ... Read more

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    This is the ebook version of the report. PDF version is accessible on Stanford website.-Detailed "table of contents" was added-Footnotes are bi-directional hyperlinks-Reference links are clickable ... Read more

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