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Three Blind Reviewers
by David Williamson Shaffer They just sent out acceptance letters for this year’s Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, and I am delighted to report that at least one of my students...
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Epistemic Games-Based Course to Enhance Women’s Interest in Engineering
In the fall of 2013, the College of Engineering will offer for the first time a course entirely based on digital learning simulations. In Interdisciplinary Engineering 111, first-year students will...
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Land Science in Boston during the Lockdown
Last week Jenny Saucerman, a graduate student in the Epistemic Games Group, traveled to the Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary near Boston to observe a group of local high school students play Land...
View ArticleHow Computer Games Help People Learn
David Williamson Shaffer’s talk, “How Computer Games Help People Learn” (Stockholm, September 2013), discusses the problems of modern education and how technology can be used to improve learning.
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Partnership to Stimulate High School Student Interest in Engineering
We are excited to announce that we will be partnering with the Long Beach Unified School District to develop an engineering virtual internship for high school students in California. The virtual...
View ArticleVirtual Internships Featured in a Report of the National Academies
A recent report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, “Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum,” reports on a convocation held to...
View ArticleENA for Readers of Mandarin
Last year, we had the privilege of hosting Xu Fenghua as a visiting scholar. Xu came to us from South Central University for Nationalities in Wuhan, China, where she studies vocational and technical...
View ArticleQuantitative Ethnography
David Williamson Shaffer’s talk “Quantitative Ethnography” (Aarhus, 2016): The ability to teach and assess the development of complex thinking skills is crucial for 21st century educational research....
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