Last modified: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 IU receives $500,000
MacArthur grant to enhance students’ education Researchers will
expand a video game that helps student engagement and learning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 11, 2007 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The
Indiana University School of Education has received a $500,000
grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to
help researchers better understand how video games can help
students become empathetic citizens and to support their
knowledge development. The project is called "Academic Play
Spaces: Learning for the 21st Century." Academic Play Spaces
will build upon the existing "Quest Atlantis" (QA), developed by
Sasha Barab, an associate professor in learning sciences in the
IU School of Education. Lee Sheldon, an assistant professor in
the IU Department of Telecommunications, and Douglas Thomas, an
associate professor in the School of Communications at the
University of Southern California, will assist Barab on the new
project as co-principal inve