Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

Mission

The PSU Educational Gaming Commons is creating a community of users who will support both the physical and organizational infrastructure to promote the broad impact of gaming within the Penn State teaching, learning, and research  environment.

Goals

• Stimulate research, application and education utilizing games, and virtual environments
• Develop educational games
• Create an Affiliate Program
• Implement the Educational Gaming Commons Lab

 Activities

• Development of educational games.
• Engaging in basic and applied research and evaluation of educational game tools and techniques.
• Establishing liaisons with researchers outside Penn State.
• Securing internal and external funds to provide support for specific projects.