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Article about the use of World of Warcraft in the classroom

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.

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.