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The Siren Song of Digital Simulation: Games, Procedural Rhetoric, and the Process of Historical Education
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Clyde, Jerremie; Wilkinson, Glenn – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2011
This paper contrasts the importance of procedural rhetoric for the use of games in university and college level historical education with the use of history themed digital simulations. This paper starts by examining how history functions as a form of disciplinary knowledge and how this disciplinary way of knowing things is taught in the post…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Simulation, History Instruction, Higher Education
A Case Study of Using Online Communities and Virtual Environment in Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as a Learning and Teaching Tool for Second Language Learners
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Kongmee, Isara; Strachan, Rebecca; Pickard, Alison; Montgomery, Catherine – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also in education. This research investigates the use of commercial MMORPGs to support second language teaching. MMORPGs offer virtual safe spaces in which students can communicate by using their…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Role Playing, Second Language Learning, Computer Simulation