Scaffolding Understanding through Research on Games for Education (SURGE) at surgeuniverse.com is a collaboration between Vanderbilt University and Arizona State University. SURGE focuses on helping students articulate and connect tacit intuitive understandings about kinematics and Newtonian mechanics into the explicit formalized understandings of the discipline. SURGE integrates research on conceptual change, cognitive processing-based design, and socio-cognitive scripting with design principles and mechanics of popular commercial video games such as Mario Galaxy, Switchball, Orbz, and Portal.
Technology Opening Diverse Opportunities for Science (TODOS) is
my core research group at Vanderbilt. Our work focuses on integrating
research on learning with research on digital environments (particularly
gaming environments) to support diverse student populations studying
science. Our work broadly focuses on representations, argumentation, and
learning research in digital environments. |
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