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  • How video games can enrich students’ formal learning
    Date: 01/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Research Brief
    Formal readings and lectures are effective at delivering explanations, but the information they impart can be so densely packed and de-contextualized that students may not make full sense of the content. Arena and Schwartz found that video games have the potential to unlock the expository content delivered by lectures, textbooks, and diagrams. ... »
  • Pox in the City: A 3-D Strategy Game for the History of Medicine
    Date: 01/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The project is the development of a working prototype that demonstrates the humanities ideas, technology, and public outreach for Pox in the City, a Unity 3D strategy game. Pox in the City draws upon a core interpretive framework for medical history, namely that beliefs, practices, and treatment are shaped by the interaction of the healer, the ... »
  • Walden, a game
    Date: 01/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This will be a unique video game based on the writings the American author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond. Designed and directed by game designer Tracy Fullerton, Walden, a game, will simulate the experiment in living made by Thoreau at Walden Pond in 1845-47, allowing players to walk in his virtual footsteps, attend to the tasks of living a ... »

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