Honors Class at WIU Introduces Video Game Technology to the History Classroom
January 27, 2023
MACOMB, IL– A brand-new history training course, used with Western Illinois University’s Centennial Honors College, is obtaining trainees associated with the University’s brand-new Digital Recreation Center, and also integrating structure and also playing historically-based computer game right into classroom lessons.
WIU Department of History Chair Tim Roberts created and also shows the class, “Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach and Make History.” He hopes the class will certainly mirror exactly how electronic technology is forming the liberal artsat WIU Thirteen Honors trainees are signed up in the class; nonetheless, none are history majors.
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