Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way

Shelley Johnson, Brett E. Shelton, David Wiley

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Abstract

As a reaction to the growing number of teachers using games in their curricula and the corresponding increase in university courses aimed at teaching the design of effective instructional games, we introduced a panel at the recent 'Games, Learning and Society' conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in June 2006. This panel brought together a community of interested parties involved with teaching educational game design. We collaborated with attendees before the panel convened so that we could introduce resources such as syllabi, collections of readings, and discussions of theory in a wiki environment to which participants could contribute during the session. After the conference session, participants contributed a number of resources to the wiki, making it a useful resource for a specific community of users. We discuss in this article the rich contents of the wiki and its use since the panel session. We also provide some discussion of how this resource can be leveraged by online self-organizing social systems, which could enrich the wiki by referencing, reusing, and even remixing its contents.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalInstructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
Volume4
Issue number2
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • collecting
  • educational games
  • managing
  • organizing
  • resources
  • teaching
  • wiki

EGS Disciplines

  • Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
  • Instructional Media Design

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