UMass Amherst Anthropology Professor Krista Harper (blog and Twitter) recently published an excellent two–part article on her experiences teaching a Fall 2014 Commonwealth Honors College on “Anthropology of/through Games,” and on game-based pedagogy in theory and practice generally.
See also: our post on Using Games to Explore and Experience Complicated Issues
If you are interested in using games or game-based pedagogy in your teaching, contact me at sam.anderson@umass.edu.