Note from guest editor Terence Govender
Try something different and see what happens when learning becomes something students do, not something that merely happens to them.
Teaching with role-playing simulations
Using realistic scenarios to help students develop real-life skills like building coalitions, collaborating, and negotiating.
Creating a new program culture
How games have helped renew energy, focus, and investment in the Physician Assistant program.
Explore the benefits of gamification.
Turning standard reviews into hands-on, collaborative experiences rekindled residents' excitement about transfusion medicine.
Playing to learn
Bringing history to life through games: Game-based learning as a purposeful way to connect learners with a course's historical content.
Turning the periodic table into a board game
Take class review sessions from passive review to active engagement using games.
A student perspective from Etta Greathouse
Using a collaborative review game to help learners apply course topics to problems within a fantasy narrative.
No time to build a game? Borrow one.
You don't need to design a game from scratch. Just choose from a growing number of classroom-ready games.
DIY game-based learning activities
It's not as hard as you think: You can use IU-approved learning tools to make escape rooms and branching scenarios.
Save the dates: Spring 2026 happenings
From GenAI Jumpstart and Teaching Gen Z to the Teaching with Technology Showcase and The Connected Classroom.
In case you missed it
Recent IU news about teaching and learning with technology.