EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles and Games and Gaming

The effective use of games in academia requires a critical approach to the medium and a willingness to let go of the learning process and harness its outcomes.

"From the title and preface, this book promised to be directed toward nonresearchers and to provide much-needed practical guidance about who the students in this new century are (the authors call them the Gamer Generation, or Gen G), why we should care, and what we should do to prepare our schools and classrooms for them."

A survey substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes others.

This is the entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 29, Number 3, 2006.

Digital games have the potential to bring play back into the learning experience.

The first review, "Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences", discusses games and simulations as learning tools. And although the examples come from industry and the military, the book could still be useful to the higher ed community.

Games designed using sound pedagogy actively engage the Net Generation in learning.