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Valve recently began collaborating with educators to develop game-related teaching tools that revolve around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. We've created Teach With Portals as a destination for this partnership, providing free content and game design tools, as well as an interactive community for exchanging lessons and experiences.

This wiki is designed as a collaborative space for educators who are using the iPod Touch in the classroom. It specifically focuses on the use of game-based learning through the iPod Touch. Here, you'll find lessons and lesson ideas, information on specific iPod Touch games, and logistical considerations for classroom implementation.

The Learning Games Network is a non-profit spin-off of the MIT Education Arcade dedicated to the innovative design, research, and use of learning games.

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.

Lisa Dawley's (Boise State University) blog on games, virtual worlds, instructional design, gamification, and learning.

Morrowcraft is a Wiki designed to document a Minecraft Multiplayer Server hosted by The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ. It's a virtual world built and inhabited by EMS students and faculty.