KQED MindShift discusses Roger Travis, a professor at University of Connecticut who has created a game to teach Homer texts he calls Operation ΚΛΕΟΣ. There are no video-game controllers in this class–playing the game requires students to become bards and discuss epic narratives. Says Travis, “When the learning objectives are the same as the play objectives of the game, that’s game-based learning.”

 

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