Book review: From N00b to Community Organizer: A Review of Kurt Squire's 'Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age (review by Michelle A. Hoy... by Kurt Squire

“… Featuring engaging stories from the author's experiences as a game researcher, this book:Explores the intersections between commercial game design for entertainment and design-based research conducted in schoolsHighlights the importance of social interactions around games at home, at school, and in online communitiesEngages readers with a user-friendly presentation, including personal narratives, sidebars, screenshots, and annotations.Offers a forward-looking vision of the changing audience for educational video games.Kurt Squire is an associate professor of Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and associate co-director for educational research and development at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.…”
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Impact of participation in continuing medical education small group learning (CME-SGL) on the stress, morale, and professional isolation of rurally-based GPs: a qualitative study i... by Stephanie Dowling, Jason Last, Henry Finnegan, Pat Daly, John Bourke, Conor Hanrahan, Pat Harrold, Geoff McCombe, Walter Cullen

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