New book on learning with digital games

Whitton, N. (2010) Learning with Digital Games New York/London: Routledge

From the publisher’s blurb:

Written for Higher Education teaching and learning professionals, Learning with Digital Games provides an accessible, straightforward introduction to the field of computer game-based learning. Up to date with current trends and the changing learning needs of today’s students, this text offers [...]

Educational games: developments over the last ten years

From Natasha Boskic

Whitton, N. (2009) Gaming innovations of the decade playthinklearn, December 31

The end of the year is always a time for summarizing and recapitulations of all the achievements, changes and mistakes we have made during those 365 days. Nicola Whitton, a Research Fellow at the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University [...]

Blogs on virtual worlds and games

Managed by Natasha Boskic

The ludologist (Jesper Juul’s blog)

Alliance Virtual Library

Mimi Ito

Henry Jenkins

NMC

HASTAC

Two recent topics on this blog:

Metaverses & scholarly collaboration (Anaventura, September 2, 2008)

and Participatory learning (Rheingold, H. August 24, 2008)

Whitton, N. (2009) Gaming innovations of the decade playthinklearn, December 31

playthinklearn. The end of the year is always a time for summarizing and [...]