Educational Sciences

Playable Personas: Using Games and Play to Expand the Repertoire of Learner Personas

This article explores how playing and co-creating games in higher education contexts contributes to expanding learner personas and facilitating a multimodal learning experience. Working from the interdisciplinary perspectives of media/games studies, pedagogy, and linguistic anthropology, Stefan Werning, Deborah Cole, and Andrea Maragliano conceptualize in-class learning as the making and playing of games, reporting on game experiments and playful practices targeted at learning key theoretical concepts in our disciplines.

Editorial Team
16-03-2021 // Insights // Criticism and Analysis, Games Beyond Entertainment

Book: Toys and Communication

A new edited volume has been published by Palgrave Macmillen titled Toys and Communication and edited by Luísa Magalhães and Jeffrey Goldstein.

Editorial Team
14-10-2018 // Books // Play Research, Player Research and Psychology, Social Games and Play

Game Research Magazine

In 2017, a special issue titled Game Research – Games that Change your Mind was published about the research projects of the Utrecht Center for Game Research.

Editorial Team
17-10-2017 // Publications // Criticism and Analysis, Games and Sustainability, Games Beyond Entertainment, Games for Health
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History of Game Research at Utrecht University

An overview of key moments in the history of game research at Utrecht University.

Marijn Benschop, Editorial Team
01-09-2000 // Education, Events, Publications // Multi theme