Video games are essentially complex systems that very young children can learn to navigate very quickly. What if we could leverage the skill with which games teach players to play? Consider the ...

Video games in education doesn’t have to mean educational video games. by Samit Sarkar. Apr 14, 2014, 10:00 PM UTC ...

Forget about my two front teeth, all I want for Christmas is a video game not focused on blood and gore. As a parent of a teenage boy, there are a few shoot ’em up video games in my house. My ex ...

Educational video games have great potential to hone critical-thinking skills, help teach academic curricula, and evaluate what students learn, concludes a report released last week by a prominent ...

Although alternate reality games have been, up to this point, only developed for entertainment, "World Without Oil" has inspired others to develop educational video games.

So the MIT Education Arcade is really leading the way, and there's also a teacher's arcade program, where they're showing that there is some effectiveness in using video games.

To draw a parallel between video gaming and education may cause the more traditional educators to balk at the thought, but recent developments in the field of video game research reveal dramatic ...

Brda is one of 110 unpaid student testers at GlassLab, a nonprofit video game development group based at the California campus of publishing powerhouse Electronic Arts. The Gates and MacArthur ...

Popular video games, such as Electronic Arts’ “Madden NFL,” traditionally have been viewed as enemies rather than allies in the educational process. After all, many educators have questioned ...

Later this month, the U.S. Department of Education holds its first Games for Learning Summit in New York City, a gathering of educational experts, students, teachers, game publishers and developers.

The popularity of educational video games may warrant a committee to grade them for merit and usefulness, like the Entertainment Software Rating Board does for objectionable material like sex and ...

Math video games can enhance students' motivation to learn, but it may depend on how students play, researchers at New York University and the City University of New York have found in a study of ...