“Reacting to the Past” is an active learning pedagogy in which students are assigned historical characters in role-playing games designed for higher education. In Reacting to the Past (RTTP) games, …
Learning Innovation invites students to join Duke’s first-ever Global Game Jam! Katya Gorecki, one of our Bass Digital Education Fellows, leads this new initiative as part of her fellowship project. …
Fall 2019 will bring another round of events around educational gaming to the Games Lab.
In this guest post, Enrique Cachafeiro, Education and Training Coordinator, Duke Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, shares highlights from the 2019 Serious Play Conference. I recently had the pleasure of …
The Game Lab is a new collaborative initiative which seeks to strengthen the curriculum of undergraduate education. Along with a physical space for gaming and teaching (Link Classroom 6), the Game Lab will support talks and training related to games and pedagogy. Faculty and students across the university are invited to attend events throughout the Spring semester.
“Reacting to the Past” courses employ a pedagogy in which students learn by taking on roles, informed by classic texts, in educational games set in the past. Students learn skills—speaking, …
