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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]