Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Studying Our Teaching, with C. Edward Watson

Eddie talks about studying our teaching and his new book: Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* on episode 190 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We should take teaching … as seriously as we take researching.
—C. Edward Watson

Are students learning what we are trying to ensure that they learn?
—C. Edward Watson

Resources Mentioned

• Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom on Episode 21 with Mark Carnes in October of 2014
• Minds on Fire, How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark Carnes
• Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* by C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood
• State of flow
• Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate* by Ernest L. Boyer
• Published games: Reacting site at Barnard College
• High-Impact Educational Practices
• Association of American Colleges and Universities Meetings and Events
• Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
• Lilly Conferences
• Journal of Chemical Education
• Journal of Engineering Education