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Figure CH6.1
Stacy A. Jacob (right) with students May Lim and Ken Gassoit.
I am an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Texas Tech University, and I
teach masters and doctoral students, who are college administrators preparing
for advancement, want to become faculty, or plan to work in government doing
research at colleges and universities. I generally do not play video games, and I
am not engaged in
Mafia Wars
or
Farmville
on Facebook; however, my
husband, Jason, is an IT guy and a gamer. Over the years, he has introduced
me to all kinds of games (mostly card-based like
Magic: The Gathering
and role-
playing influenced board games such as
Settlers of Catan
). In many ways, I am
one of the least likely persons to be incorporating ideas from a professor that is
working in games and simulation arts. I like actual letters rather than emails, old
topics, and things from the past. Jason is fascinated with technology and loves
video games. It is unlikely that I would have ever heard of Lee Sheldon without
my husband
'
s help.
About a year ago, I got an email from Jason that said,
Watch this clip, it talks
about a professor who is using games in his classroom, and it sounds like a cool
idea.
“
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Attached was a YouTube video of a lecture. The speaker in the lecture
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