Schedule
:: Lesson 1 :: Track
A Summaries :: Track
B Summaries
Topic: What are instructional games? Research,
classifications and culture.
Readings:
Track A
Wolf, M. J. P. (2001). Chapter 6: Genre and the video
game (HTML). In M. J. P. Wolf (Ed.), The Medium of the
Video Game (pp. 113-134). Austin: University of Texas Press.
Holland, W., Jenkins, H., & Squire, K. (2003). Chapter 1: Theory by design
(PDF). In M. J. P. Wolf & B. Perron (Eds.), The Video
Game Theory Reader (pp. 25-46). New York: Routledge.
Track B
Virvou, M., Katsionis, G., & Manos, K. (2005). Combining software games with education: Evaluation of
its educational effectiveness (PDF). Educational Technology
& Society, 8(2), 54-65.