专业概况
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Create, use, and evaluate digital games for the specific purpose of learning. This degree will prepare you to use evidence-based research to facilitate the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of programs that integrate games in a broad range of formal and informal learning settings.
We offer several areas of study including game design, game development, game research, and student-customized focus areas under faculty supervision. You’ll graduate with a depth of knowledge about:
- The role of social, emotional, cultural, and cognitive aspects of learning and issues of game design.
- Game design models and developmental practices.
- The value of narrative features of game design.
- Research methods aimed at improving and evaluating the design of games for learning.
Your work with faculty and in the field will enable you to:
- Explain the potential values and limitations of the use of digital games for learning, and for what kinds of learning, what types of learners, in what content domains, and in what settings games have the potential to support learning.
- Discuss the role and function of play in games for learning and, in that context, the contribution of diverse features of games, such as role playing, immersion, narrative, feedback, situated experience, distributed cognition, consequences of failure, etc.
- Apply the social, cognitive, emotional, and cultural dimensions of factors that influence learning in game design, drawing from theories in the learning sciences and cognitive science that are relevant to game design for learning.
- Demonstrate competency in one of the following areas: the technical development of digital games for learning, the learning design of digital games, the methods for research and evaluation of games for learning, or a related area as deemed appropriate by program faculty.
- Demonstrate competency in conducting design-based research to support the development of effective games for learning, including usability research, playtesting, and various approaches to evaluation.
You’ll be prepared for a career as a:
- Director of projects related to games for learning
- Learning game designer
- Game researcher
- Program evaluator
Graduates work in such settings as:
- University-based research centers
- Community agencies
- Not-for profit organizations
- School systems
- Private industry, such as game design studios, educational design firms, and educational research firms
所属院系
进入哪个院系学习？ Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development
中国学生入学要求
课程信息
学制：全日制(36 )
学费：US$45,660.00 (¥ 290,484) /年
开学时间：预计在九月 2022
申请截止日期：
留学地点：Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development383 Lafayette Street,New York,10003, United States
