Getting Started with Game-Based Learning

Scholarly Resources

For a little more information on the value, applicability, generalizability, and difficulties in the design of controlled experiment, see the following:

• Transformational Play as a Curricular Scaffold: Using Videogames to Support Science Education, by Sasha Barab, Brianna Scott, Sinem Siyahhan, Robert Holdstone, and Adam Ingram-Goble of Indiana University, Steven Zuiker of the National Institute of Education, and Scott Warren of the University of North Texas
• Making Learning Fun: Quest Atlantis, A Game Without Guns, by Sasha Barab, Michael Thomas, Tyler Dodge, Robert Carteaux, and Hakan Tuzun
• Not just fun, but serious strategies: Using meta-cognitive strategies in game-based learning, by Bokyeong Kim from the University of Virginia, and Hyungsung Park and Youngkyun Baek from the Korea National University of Education
• Entering the education arcade, by Henry Jenkins, Eric Flopfer, Kurt Squire, and Philip Tan of MIT
• Collaborative learning through augmented reality role playing, by Eric Klopfer and Judy Perry of MIT, and Kurt Squire and Ming-Fong Jan from the University of Wisconsin
• Distinguishing between games and simulations: A systematic review, by Louise Sauve, Lise Renaud, David Kaufman, and Jean-Simon Marquis
• Fighting baddies and collecting bananas: Teachers’ perceptions of game-based literacy learning, by Hannah Gerber and Debra Price of Sam Houston State University
• Mystery at the Museum – A Collaborative Game for Museum Education, by Eric Klopfer and Judy Perry of MIT, and Kurt Squire, Ming-Fong Jan, and Constance Steinkuehler from the University of Wisconsin
• The boom and bust and boom of educational games, by Eric Klopfer and Scot Osterweil of MIT
• Why Gamification is Bullshit, by Ian Bogost of Georgia Tech
• Game-Based Learning in Science Education: A Review of Relevant Research, by Ming-Chaun Li and Chin-Chung Tsai from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
• Learning in Context: Digital Games and Young Black Men, by Betsy DiSalvo of Georgia Tech, and Kevin Crowley, and Roy Norwood of the University of Pittsburgh
• Questioning Video Games! Influence on CS Interest, by Betsy DiSalvo and Amy Bruckman of Georgia Tech
• Digital Game-Based Learning in high school Computer Science education: Impact on educational effectiveness and student motivation, by Marina Papastergiou of the University of Thessaly
• Intelligent Tutoring and Games (ITaG), by Danielle McNamara, G. Tanner Jackson, and Arthur Graesser from the University of Memphis
• The Value of Serious Play, by Lloyd Rieber, Lola Smith, and David Noah of the University of Georgia
• The Effectiveness of Instructional Games: A Literature Review and Discussion, by Robert Hays of the Naval Air Warfare Center

For more, check out articles from the following journals and conferences:

• International Journal of Game-Based Learning

General Media

These sources would generally not be suitable for use in your assignments, but they may provide a useful general overview of the topic if you find yourself struggling with the more scholarly resources.

• Game-Based Learning: What it is, Why it Works, and Where it’s Going, by Jessica Trybus of the New Media Institute
• Digital game-based learning, from the University of North Carolina
• MindShift Guide to Digital Games + Learning, by Jordan Shapiro
• Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions, by Carlo Perrotta, Gill Featherstone, Helen Aston, and Emily Houghton from the National Foundation for Educational Research
• Getting the Facts on Game-Based Learning, by Jake Huhn from the Knowledge Guru
• Historical Perspectives on Games and Education, from Eduxtive
• Game-based Learning or Game-based Teaching?, by Paul Pivec from Deakin University
• Simulation and Gaming Software Development Tools and Languages, from Eurosis
• Educational game, from Wikipedia
• Gamification in the Classroom: The Right or Wrong Way to Motivate Students?, by Tim Walker from the National Education Association
• Gamification of learning, from Wikipedia
• Is “making a game out of learning” bad for learning?, by Chris Berdik
• Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom, by Sara Corbett of the New York Times Magazine
• It Only Takes About 42 Minutes To Learn Algebra With Video Games, by Jordan Shapiro of Forbes
• Digital Game-Based Learning: It’s Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless, by Richard van Eck of the University of North Dakota
• Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning, by Seymour Papert
• What Game-Based Learning Can Do for Student Achievement, by Justin Eames from Johns Hopkins University
• Taking the First Steps Towards Teaching With Video Games, by Ki Sung from MindShift
• Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight, by Tanner Higgin of Graphite
• Developing Games and Simulations for Today and Tomorrow’s Tech Savvy Youth, by Eric Klopfer and Susan Yoon from MIT
• The gold rush to gamify education, by Aaron Sankin of The Kernel
• Gamification is Bullshit, by Ian Bogost from Georgia Tech
• An example of gamification that isn’t bullshit, by Janet Murray of Georgia Tech