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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Digital | Could we make popular video games like Skyrim more educational?

Digital | Could we make popular video games like Skyrim more educational?:

Could we make popular video games like Skyrim more educational?

I sometimes wonder what educators and video-game developers might come up with if they ever sat down together and decided to make mainstream commercial games more educational.
Video games are a huge business. When the latest installment of the Call of Duty series came out in November, it racked up more than $1 billion in sales in just 16 days. In 2010, U.S. video-game sales exceeded $25 billion,