Quest Atlantis
Quest Atlantis is an NSF funded research project that attempts to build a social learning for late elementary students combining elements of play, social commitments and academic content. Students research problems and issues on planet Earth in order to help the people of Atlantis solve their problems. Key areas of research have included:
- The effects of different media representations and interface styles.
- Evaluation of learning outcomes in a complex environment.
- Evaluating international and inter-gender sociability.
- Prototyping game-like, goal-driven scenarios for teaching water quality and writing.
works
- The Quest Atlantis publication list.
- My dissertation.
- This book chapter provides a good summary of the project and many forms of research on instructional design and evaluation within Quest Atlantis:
- Barab, S., Dodge, T., Tuzun, H., Job-Sluder, K., Jackson, C., Arici, A., Job-Sluder, L., Carteaux, R., Jr., Gilbertson, J., & Heiselt, C. (in press). The Quest Atlantis Project: A socially-responsive play space for learning. In B. E. Shelton & D. Wiley (Eds.), The Educational Design and Use of Simulation Computer Games. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
- My 2004 abstract for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences Doctoral Consortium.