Arizona State University has partnered with a nonprofit to educate students through video gaming.<\/p>\n
Through the partnership with Games for Change, students will earn microcredentials, or digital badges for participating in \u201chackathons\u201d or picking up skills from playing games.<\/p>\n
Mark Ollila is the founding director of ASU\u2019s Endless Games and Learning Lab.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019ll be continually excited students that are sharing their micro credentials around what they\u2019ve learned in games based learning. And it\u2019s really having that acknowledgement that there\u2019s a lot of criticism around games, but games are so powerful in terms of the learning that can come from it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
He cited SimCity as an example of how people can learn about urban planning and resource management.<\/p>\n
Ollila says the gaming and learning lab focuses on using games not just as a learning tool but as an economic opportunity.<\/p>\n
He says games serve as an important resource.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the big emphasis I really want to have is that games are a powerful tool for achieving scale for examining and understanding learning that’s been taking place while you’re making games and playing games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona State University has partnered with a nonprofit to educate students through video gaming. Through the partnership with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-138537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013478278175631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}