The Conversation U.S.4d ago

An astrophysics professor at Penn State noticed half her 300 students were skipping class.

Her solution: turn the lectures into a video game where players explore Mars, other planets, and galaxies while learning astronomy.
https://theconversation.com/students-were-skipping-my-astrophysics-class-to-play-video-games-so-i-turned-the-class-itself-into-a-video-game-277450

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

With college students less likely to read through a full textbook than they once were, video games can help keep them engaged.

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@TheConversationUS Great to see this finally happening more. I did this a decade ago as already then students were not interested in attenuating lectures. Sadly the uni I was at was not ready to accept that games had a place in learning.
Apr 3 at 10:33pmWeb