Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Studying Our Teaching

01/02/2018 33 min
Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Studying Our Teaching

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Episode Synopsis

Eddie talks about studying our teaching and his new book: Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* on episode 190 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We should take teaching … as seriously as we take researching.
—C. Edward Watson
Are students learning what we are trying to ensure that they learn?
—C. Edward Watson
Resources Mentioned

Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom on Episode 21 with Mark Carnes in October of 2014
Minds on Fire, How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark Carnes
Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* by C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood
State of flow 
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate* by Ernest L. Boyer
Published games: Reacting site at Barnard College
High-Impact Educational Practices
Association of American Colleges and Universities Meetings and Events
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
Lilly Conferences
Journal of Chemical Education
Journal of Engineering Education