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A New Approach to Gaming and Education: Alternate Reality Games

Session Details

Monday, January 30, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Plaza AB Room

Session Type: Concurrent Session

Speaker(s)

Bryan Alexander, Director for Research, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
Session convener: Louise Thorpe, Head of Academic Innovation, Sheffield Hallam University

Abstract

Alternate reality games (ARGs) offer unusual opportunities for the growing interest in connecting computer gaming with deep learning. Their innovative structure requires interdisciplinary multimedia inquiry while rewarding distributed collaboration. Inexpensive and engaging to create, ARGs represent rich case studies for media studies and information literacy.

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