Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

by Mark C. Carnes

Book Overview

Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Faculty, administrators, and tuition-paying parents have been asking this question for nearly two centuries. And the answer is always more or less the same: students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play (fraternities, sports, beer pong, World of Warcraft, social media) that they neglect academics. In Minds on Fire, Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674735358
• ISBN13: 9780674735354
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.9"