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A talk bySean GouglasAssociate Professor in Humanities Computing andSenior Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta

This presentation addresses three suc-cesses and one lovely failure in increas-ing student engagement in large and very large games courses. Understand-ing Video Games (UVG) is offered by the University of Alberta with cooperation from BioWare Inc. Students may take the course in one of three ways, all taught concurrently: an in-class version with 36 students, an online version with 400 students, and a free Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) version through Coursera where students participated with 25 000 of their closest friends.

4pm Wednesday 25 March .