(THE CONVERSATION) Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching ... At the same time, the interactive experience of a video ...

Talk about an A for effort. A middle school teacher is being praised online for using a widely popular historical-fiction video game to teach ancient Greek history in an engaging and immersive way ...

This week’s Spotlight on Education takes us inside a classroom at Edison High School in Fairfax County, VA, where learning ...

Small Changes in Teaching: The Last 5 Minutes of Class Don’t waste them trying to cram in eight more points or call out as many reminders as possible By James M. Lang March 7, 2016 ...

Badges, leaderboards and other game elements are familiar in K-12 classrooms, but more university courses are embracing learning through gaming. Yan Shi’s computer science course at the University of ...

This game was so fun for so many reasons, particularly to try to play in class. One, there is a decent amount of strategy involved. It's not just dumb luck.

Designing games is a powerful way for students to learn transferable and in-demand skills, and teaching it can be as easy as allowing students to demonstrate their learning using tools they choose. By ...

Bitcoin Pizza day is coming up on May 22, so now is a good time to take stock of how bitcoin has evolved since its inception. I’m teaching the first bitcoin class this semester at Texas A&M ...

As video games such as ‘Black Myth: Wukong,’ with strong religious themes, gain popularity, a course uses the interactive experience to teach students about the role of religion.