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Article about the use of World of Warcraft in the classroom

Article: IBM & Seriosity Thinks World of Warcraft Doubles as Corporate Incubator July 2, 2007 IBM and Seriosity published a report this week comparing what it takes to succeed in MMORPGs to being a corporate executive.

Cognitive Dissonance (World of Warcraft Guild: Sisters of Elune, Alliance) was chartered in December 2007 with an original intent to explore the concept of MMORPGs and their relationship to the field of education.

Article about the educational value of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft

Article about the professional benefits of guild leadership in games like World of Warcraft

PlayOn 2.0 is a continuation of a research project started at the Palo Alto Research Center in late 2003. The project pioneered the use of large scale, automated data collection to investigate the social dynamics of a variety of massively multiplayer online games, foremost among them World of Warcraft.

This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, in a school setting.

Virtual Communities The WoW Factor For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.

If you had asked me six years ago when Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft (WoW), the popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplay Game), launched if I would be spearheading an effort to bring it into the classroom, it is very likely that I would have laughed...

The Games, Learning, and Society group is a collection of academic researchers, interactive media (or game) developers, and government and industry leaders who investigate how this medium operates, how it can be used to transform how we learn, and what this means for society. As such we seek to understand what cognitive work goes into playing Zelda, World of Warcraft, or Civilization, how these design features might be leveraged to improve learning via the design of learning systems, and how organizations such as schools will need to respond.

Like a lot of teachers, Lucas Gillispie had no problem with the textbook material he taught to his high school students. His biggest challenge during his seven years in the classroom was connecting with the teenagers in his classes. His solution, it turned out, was right in front of him...

Learning is no game on today's college campuses. It's serious work that many students dread. Yet when those same students play video games like World of Warcraft, they happily spend hours on difficult tasks, and actually learn quite a bit in the process.