StarCraft features in University of Florida's '21st Century Skills' course

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of Florida's '21st Century Skills' course via Joystiq by Richard
Mitchell on 8/24/10
It seems games are seeping even further into our education system.
We've already reported the inclusion of Portal in the coursework at
Wabash College, and now we learn that the University of Florida is
offering a class in StarCraft -- 21st Century Skills in Starcraft
(EME2040). The course, taught by doctoral student Nathaniel Poling,
uses Blizzard's classic RTS to impart students with skills in the areas
of "critical thinking, problem solving, resource management, and
adaptive decision making."

Poling told Technology Review that StarCraft requires players to
manage "a lot of different units and groups of different capacities," a
skill that translates in real world business. The course -- the
university's first fully online class -- requires students to play the
game, watch recorded matches, and write papers "which emphasize
analysis and synthesis of real/game-world concepts." Oh, the class also
has no final exam and does count toward a student's GPA. In other
words: enroll in this class now.

[Thanks, Kai]
StarCraft features in University of Florida's '21st Century Skills'
course originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:01:00 EST.
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