Video Game Studies

Our mission is to help children succeed in the classroom and in life by using online games to improve social and emotional learning.

Game-Based Learning in Action.

Get tips, techniques, and tools that apply the principles of game design to the learning process -- a dynamic way to engage learners and help educators assess learning.

A U-M site that offers recommendations for applying gameful pedagogy to your course.

The American University Game Lab serves as a hub for experiential education, persuasive play research, and innovative production in the fields of games for change and rhetorical play.

The Center for Learning through Games and Simulations promotes the use of games, simulations, and play in learning. The use of games facilitates an active-learning agenda with a high level of student engagement. The goal is to have the students learn course material while simultaneously building skills in leadership, public speaking, critical thinking, problem solving and analysis.

The CUNY Games Network is an organization dedicated to encouraging research, scholarship and teaching in the developing field of games-based learning.

The Digital Technologies Hub provides learning resources and services for teachers, students, school leaders and parents. It aims to support the implementation of quality Digital Technologies programs and curriculum in schools and to support after school activities.

Part of the Human Factors and Systems Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, this lab focuses on exploring how games and simulation can enhance education and training.

The Gamification Lab investigates the aesthetic, ethical and political implications of gamification and works on innovative formats of ‘gamified’ apps, civic technology, and socially aware intervention with ludic methods.

The Gameful Learning Summer Institute (GLSI) leverages inspiration from good games to explore how learning environments can be designed (and re-designed) to promote learners’ senses of autonomy, belonging and competence to motivate engagement and effort in learning. The GLL collaborates with instructors to create engaging courses, conducts research on learner motivation and develops tools to facilitate gameful learning at a range of scales.

GamificationLab is a university laboratory dedicated to research and teaching in the field of gamification, the gaming and digital simulations.

The A-GAMES Project (Analyzing Games for Assessment in Math, ELA/ Social Studies, and Science) studied how teachers actually use digital games in their teaching to support formative assessment

The learning management system that helps instructors build gameful courses & encourages students to focus on the craft of learning.

The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning explains key ideas in game-based learning, pedagogy, implementation, and assessment. This guide makes sense of the available research and provides suggestions for practical use.

Features 167 original, challenging, and exciting educational games for kids ages 4 – 14 that allow students to learn and practice topics through role-play, problem solving, critical thinking, calculation, and trial and error.