Binding: Paperback
Description: The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans is a companion to The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game now in its second edition from CRC Press. This book covers four multiplayer classroom projects played in the real world in real time to teach and entertain. They were funded by grants or institutions collaborations between Lee Sheldon as writer/designer and subject matter experts in various fields. They are written to be accessible to anyone - - designer educator or layperson - - interested in game - based learning. The subjects are increasingly relevant in this day and age: physical fitness Mandarin cybersecurity and especially an online class exploring culture and identity on the internet that is unlike any online class you have ever seen. Read the annotated often - suspenseful stories of how each game with its unique challenges thrills and spills was built. Lee Sheldon began his writing career in television as a writer - producer eventually writing more than 200 shows ranging from Charlie's Angels (writer) to Edge of Night (head writer) to Star Trek: The Next Generation (writer - producer). Having written and designed more than forty commercial and applied video games Lee spearheaded the first full writing for games concentration in North America at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the second writing concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a regular lecturer and consultant on game design and writing in the United States and abroad. His most recent commercial game the award - winning The Lion's Song is currently on Steam. For the past two years he consulted on an "escape room in a box " funded by NAS a that gives visitors to hundreds of science museums and planetariums the opportunity to play colonizers on the moon. He is currently writing his second mystery novel.
Title: The Multiplayer Classroom Game Plans
Author(s): Sheldon Lee (Worcester Polytechnic)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367249014
Pages: 456 Pages, 21 Line Drawings, Black And White; 73 Halftones, Color; 73 Illustrations, Color; 21 Illus
Publication Date: 5/17/2021
Category: Epidemiology & Medical Statistics