Digital Games and Learning

Paul Maharg is Professor of Law at the Glasgow Graduate School, University of Strathclyde UK. Henry Jenkins is Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and Full Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Sara de Freitas is Professor of Virtual Environments and Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry, UK.

• Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword Henry Jenkins; Introduction Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg; Part I: Theoria - Theoretical Positions; 1. Digital Games and Learning: Modelling learning experiences in the digital age Paul Maharg and Sara de Freitas; 2. Four-dimensional Consideration of Feedback in Serious Games Ian Dunwell, Sara de Freitas and Steve Jarvis; 3. A Complex Systems Framework for Simulating Teaching and Learning David Gibson; Part II: Cultura - Cultural Perspectives; 4. Revolution: Experiential learning through virtual role play Russell Francis; 5. Stealth Learning in Online Games Esther MacCallum-Stewart; 6. Murder on Grimm Isle: The design of a game-based learning environment Michele Dickey; 7. Are Games All Child's Play? Scot Osterweil and Eric Klopfer; Part III: Praxis - Theory into practice; 8. Constructions of Games, Teachers and Young People in Formal Learning Richard Sandford, Keri Facer and Ben Williamson; 9. Games and Simulations in Informal Science Education Kurt Squire and Nathan J. Patterson; 10. From Master to Games-Master: Managing disequilibrium and scaffolding in simulation-based learning Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar; 11. Designing Serious Games for Cultural Heritage Purposes Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Giulia Panizza, Matteo Pellegrino and Ludovica Primavera; Index.

‘Digital Games and Learning is a much-needed addition to the burgeoning field of serious gaming. The book's emphasis on issues that matter to a wide range of stakeholders - from practitioners, to researchers, to policy-makers - asks us to look beyond departmental, institutional, and professional silos in order to advance practice, research, and theory.' George Veletsianos, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, University of Texas at Austin, USA