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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Situated Learning in WoW: Exploring Random dungeons (PUGs)

By Melanie, on February 24th, 2010

In my ongoing quest to locate the pedagogical value of games (via game play, research and dialogue), I have come across an interesting example of situated learning in WoW: The random dungeon, or “PUG.”

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, here is an excellent and educator friendly overview.

“A PUG [...]

Exploring WoW Part I: Critical inquiry

By Melanie, on February 11th, 2010

After close to ten years of watching my other half blast his way through massively multiplayer worlds (MMOs), I decided this was just too big a phenomena for me to avoid. Not only that, but I felt I couldn’t really continue to call myself a “gamer” if I hadn’t played an MMO – let alone [...]