2026 Short Course Spotlight: Gaming Pedagogies –

Gaming Pedagogies

Full Day Short Course | Register here
2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition — Boston, MA
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

This brief course will carry collectively skilled in addition to novice practitioners and researchers of gaming pedagogies throughout the self-discipline. Gaming pedagogies is interpreted as distinct from simulations, however as broadly constituting strategies that invite college students to be taught via play, be it aggressive or cooperative conventional analog board video games, cell and video video games, collaborative story-driven role-playing video games, and utilizing different gaming instruments and applied sciences, equivalent to toys. Over the periods of the brief course, contributors will discover gaming pedagogies and share sources, brainstorm analysis potentialities deriving from such pedagogies, in addition to attainable methodological approaches to stated analysis, and take part in round-table discussions of greatest practices/troubleshooting actions.

• APSA Annual Meeting Pre-conference Short Courses are half- or full-day occasions that provide various skilled growth alternatives and permit attendees to attach with students from numerous backgrounds. This yr’s pre-conference brief programs might be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsored by APSA Organized Sections, Related Groups, and different affiliated organizations. All brief programs require pre-registration to attend.
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