Overview of all pages with the tag #gamification

History Made Fun

A post by a self-confessed history-phobic student who took a new look at her most dreaded subject a decade later

Ningyang Chen 30 January 2021 (last modified 3 March 2021)

Guest author Ningyang Chen discusses how video games helped redeem the study of history in her eyes... [Read More]

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Down the Rabbit Hole

An introduction to history and alternate reality games

Simon Coll 22 January 2020 (last modified 12 February 2021)

ARGs offer a host of advantages to those attempting to teach people about and engage people in history, and their educational potential has barely begun to be tapped... [Read More]

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Book Review: Playing with the Past, edited by M. W. Kapell and A. B. R. Elliott

Simon Coll 9 December 2019 (last modified 3 March 2021)

A look at Matthew Kappell and Andrew Elliott's edited tome on the theory and practice of exploring history through video games... [Read More]

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