This section is dedicated to game-based learning to include educational games, gamification, and game design.

About Game-based Learning

• TED Talk – Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
• TED Talk – Classroom Game Design: Paul Andersen at TEDxBozeman
• TED Talk – Jesse Schell: When games invade real life
• TED Talk – Brenda Romero: Gaming for understanding
• James Paul Gee on Learning With Video Games
• Five-Minute Film Festival: Game-Based Learning (playlist)
• 50 Awesome Videos for Gaming Teachers
• Top 100 Learning Game Resources
• 100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources
• 10+ Game-Based Learning Resources: From Practical Applications To Academic Theory
• 10 Books for Reading to Level Up on Game-Based Learning
• MIT Education Arcade – Moving Learning Games Forward: Obstacles, Opportunities & Openness (PDF)
• The Beginner’s Guide to Gamification (playlist)
• Can an Online Game Crack the Code to Language Learning?
• EduCause article – 7 Things You Should Read About Gamification/Game Principles in Instruction (PDF)
• EduCause article – “This Game Sucks”: How to Improve the Gamification of Education
• Chronicle of Higher Education article – 5 Teaching Tips for Professors—From Video Games
• A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool
• What Does Game-based Learning Offer Higher Education?
• Generation Z: The Biggest Cheaters Since Homer
• How ‘game mechanics’ can revitalize education
• Why I Let my Students Cheat on Their Game Theory Exam
• Gamification in Education
• A Guide to Game-Based Learning
• Using Gaming Principles to Engage Students
• Increasing Student Engagement By Grading Backwards
• WoWinSchool: How to use WoW and MMORPGs to Engage Students
• Does Gamification Work? — A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification
• The Awesome Power of Gaming in Higher Education
• The Positive Side of Video Games: Part I

Game-based Tools and Games

• 3D GameLab – Turn class into a game
  • 3D GameLab Guild Site
• The Pericles Group – Learning Latin
• Games in the Library
• Game-Based Learning: Resource Roundup
• Socrative
• Aris – Augmented Reality Games
  • Aris maker Tools
  • ‘Augmented Reality’ on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth
• Classcraft
  • Classcraft makes the classroom a giant role-playing game
  • Classcraft Makes Learning Fun By ‘Gamifying’ The Classroom
• TADS – Interactive Fiction (English)
• Thiagi – Training Games
• JeopardyLabs
• Create Jeopardy-style Games in Google Sheets
• Twine – Tool for writing interactive adventure stories
  • Review: Twine lets you easily create interactive “choose your own adventure” stories

Games

• Anatomy Arcade (Anatomy)
• Arab Israeli Co‍nflict Simulation (Political Science)
• PeaceMaker (Political Science)
• College and Higher Ed Learning Games
• Big History Project (History)
  • The Big History Project Teaches The Story of Humanity with Game Based Learning
• Fantasy Geopolitics
  • How a High School Teacher Is ‘Gamifying’ World News
  • YouTube video about Fantasy Geopolitics
• Cisco Binary Game (Computer Science)
• MMOWGLI, the Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet
• Brandon Generator (English)
  • Article about Brandon Generator
• 22 Power Cards to Revolutionize a Class Discussion
  • The “Revolutionary Battle” Interactive Learning Structure
  • Power cards
• Memrise – Vocabulary gaming tool
• Playing History: Your Source for Historical Games (History)
• NASA – Moonbase Alpha (STEM)
• Cyber Nations – A Nation Simulation Game
• Mission US: A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
• 12 board games to make you a better person

Examples

• Lee Sheldon
  • T366 Multiplayer Game Design Post Mortem
  • Syllabus
  • Notes & Observation
• Game Attributes and Mechanics in Education (GAME): A Design-Based Education Research Project
• Knowledge Quest)
• 11 Steps to Gamify Your Next Lesson
• Gamification of MIS3538: Social Media Innovation
  • 13 of the Top Gamification WordPress Plugins

Augmented Reality Games

• Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
• MITAR Games

Gamification

• Gamification: Bring Gaming Mechanics Into Non-gaming Environments
• Games, Gamification, and the Quest for Learner Engagement

Organizations

• Games and Professional Simulations research consortium

Where to Get More Information

• 50 Best Twitter Feeds to Follow Educational Gaming
• Join The Journey of 12 Educator Bloggers Gamifying Learning