Freitas D.S., Maharg P. Digital Games and Learning

Continuum, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1441198709, 0826421377.The popularity of entertainment gaming over the last decades has led to the use of games for non-entertainment purposes in areas such as training and business support. The emergence of the serious games movement has capitalized on this interest in leisure gaming, with an increase in leisure game approaches in schools, colleges, universities and in 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 games be used to motivate, deepen and accelerate learning? How can they be used to greatest effect in learning and teaching? The contributors explore these and many other questions that are vital to our understanding of the paradigm shift from conventional learning environments to learning in games and simulations.Paul Maharg is Professor of Law at the Glasgow Graduate School, University of Strathclyde UK. Henry Jenkins is Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and Full Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Sara de Freitas is Professor of Virtual Environments and Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry, UK.Notes on Contributors
Foreword Henry Jenkins
Introduction Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg
Theoria - Theoretical Positions
Digital Games and Learning: Modelling learning experiences in the digital age Paul Maharg and Sara de Freitas
Four-dimensional Consideration of Feedback in Serious Games Ian Dunwell, Sara de Freitas and Steve Jarvis
A Complex Systems Framework for Simulating Teaching and Learning David Gibson
Cultura - Cultural Perspectives
Revolution: Experiential learning through virtual role play Russell Francis
Stealth Learning in Online Games Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Murder on Grimm Isle: The design of a game-based learning environment Michele Dickey
Are Games All Child's Play? Scot Osterweil and Eric Klopfer
Praxis - Theory into practice
Constructions of Games, Teachers and Young People in Formal Learning Richard Sandford, Keri Facer and Ben Williamson
Games and Simulations in Informal Science Education Kurt Squire and Nathan J. Patterson
From Master to Games-Master: Managing disequilibrium and scaffolding in simulation-based learning Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar
Designing Serious Games for Cultural Heritage Purposes Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Giulia Panizza, Matteo Pellegrino and Ludovica Primavera