Educational Gaming has to Engage the Students... but How? - EduTechie.com

If you have been following the news lately you have probably read about some of the educational efforts right now to integrate online multi-player games like Eve-Online, Second Life and World of Warcraft into classroom learning environments, or at least harness the popularity and power of the games in an attempt to encourage learning among users. It is not an idea peculiar to educational bloggers… Second Life even has an educational section devoted entirely to integrating the program into learning. There have even been several attempts to build a game that teaches a courses for you. (UNC-G economics course comes to mind - NPR article). So what is the future of all this?

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