matt dunleavy

The purpose of the Games, Animation, Modeling and Simulation (GAMeS) Lab is to design interactive and immersive participatory digital curricula and study the efficacy of these products on student engagement and learning. Working with a collaborative team of researchers and developers, Radford University’s College of Education and Human Development will provide participating schools from Southwest Virginia with Standards of Learning (SOLs) aligned products for field testing. In addition, the GAMeS Lab will train masters level students and in-service teachers to develop their own digital curricula.  Within a mixed methods design-based research project, the researchers will conduct multiple qualitative case studies within participating schools to document the affordances and limitations of the GAMeS Lab products from the student and teacher perspective.