The multiplayer classroom : designing coursework as a game
From the publisher: Discover how to engage your students and raise their grades and attendance in your classroom. THE MULTIPLAYER CLASSROOM: DESIGNING COURSEWORK AS A GAME is your detailed guide to designing any structured learning experience as a game. Written for professional educators or those learning to be educators, here are the tools to engage and excite students by using principles learned in the development of popular video games. Suitable for use in the classroom or the boardroom, the book features a reader-friendly style that introduces game concepts and vocabulary in a logical way. You don't need any experience making games or even playing games to use this book. Yet, you will learn how to create multiplayer games for any age on any subject
Print Book, English, ©2012
Course Technology/Cengage Learning, Austrailia, ©2012
Handbook
xx, 284 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9781435458444, 1435458443
654314562
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Games in the classroom
Theory and practice of game design syllabi
Theory and practice of game design class
Case history 1: Marked Tree High School
Multiplayer game design syllabi
Multiplayer game design class
Case history 2: University of Arizona South : teaching with technology
Introduction to game design syllabus
Introduction to game design class
Case history 3: Louisiana State University : Introduction to the study of education
Designing interactive characters syllabus
Designing interactive characters class
Case history 4: Valencia Community College : United States history to 1877
Identifying learning objectives and student needs
Case history 5: Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School : General math
Student demographics
Case history 6: Texas Tech University : History of higher education in the United States
How games are designed
Case history 7: Ohio Valley College of Technology : Introduction to keyboarding & business writing, Introduction to computers
Production
Playing the game Case history 8: Waunakee Community High School : computer science classes
Designing the future
Resources
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