Graduate Skills and Game-Based Learning

Reviews / Votes

"A compelling read for any faculty member who is considering whether and how to use games in their teaching. This book provides practical recommendations and robust research evidence about how students can learn important transferrable skills through gaming." (Judy Robertson, Professor and Chair in Digital Learning, University of Edinburgh, UK)

"This book provides a much needed foundation for games in learning, linking them explicitly to graduate attributes and pedagogic theory. Moving beyond potential and advocacy, Barr grounds the application in empirical research, while also clearly setting out the perspectives of educators and students. It provides a very insightful account of how games can be used effectively in higher education, and also the issues involved." (Martin Weller, Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK and President of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT))

"This work provides key insights to using games as pedagogical tools in graduate education, positioning games in the classroom, and understanding the views and opinions of graduate students in engaging with such efforts. It explores the themes of games as tools for inquiry and experiential learning in ways that are both grounded in relevant theory and wonderfully concrete for practicing educators. I have no doubt that this will prove to be an important work for those in the field." (Andrew Phelps, Professor Human Interface Technologies Laboratory, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Professor and Director, American University Game Lab)