Posts Tagged ‘games’

Engaged or Enraged? Courting the online learner with lessons learned from video gaming

Feb 3, 2009 at 10:41 am, Chuck Wight

Let’s face it: most “academic” video games are just lame. But there are important lessons to be learned from the video gaming industry to engage students in learning. PracticeZone.org is putting some of these concepts to work to teach General Chemistry online. Read the rest of this entry »

Educational Tools: a collaborative effort for a diversifying nation

Feb 2, 2009 at 10:21 am, Palkin Zed

Collaboration between different disciplines, age groups, genders, ethnicities is a must when creating a program that appeals to the demographics emerging in our education system. Building educational tools which do not recognize our differences and similarities are incomplete tools when providing a full education to a young audience. Read the rest of this entry »

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