Some Personal Thoughts About Research on Using Games in Education
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Date
2006-07-06
Authors
Moursund, David G.
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D. Moursund
Abstract
There is a huge amount of literature available on the Web about the topic of games in education. However, most of it is testimonial, rather than solid research. As I was writing my book, I spent a lot of time reading and browsing the available literature, paying special attention
to the research. I talked to a large number of teachers and other people who are interested in the
field. In addition, I drew upon my many years of experience in the field of education. However, I did not conduct any empirical research in the field of games in education. Thus, this book is based on an analysis and synthesis of research and practitioner knowledge. This paper was originally presented July 6, 2006 at NECC 2006 in San Diego.
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11 p. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.