"This is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in integrating gaming and simulation into a course or the entire curricula. It presents the theory and the associated practical application. The extensive reference list and resource/product list encourage and support readers with implementation." Score: 98, 5 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews

"Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare is a timely, exhaustive look at how emerging technologies are transforming clinical education. Anyone looking for firsthand, direct account of how game-based learning technologies are reshaping clinical practice needs this book."

Kurt Squire, PhD
Associate Professor
Games+Learning+Society [GLS]
School of Education
University Of Wisconsin - Madison

This innovative text provides practical strategies for developing, integrating, and evaluating new and emerging technology, specifically game-based learning methods, useful in nursing and clinical health sciences education. The text draws upon existing models of experiential learning such as Benner's "thinking-in-action" and "novice-to-expert" frameworks, and introduces current theories supporting the phenomenon of the created learning environment.

Chapters explain how simulation and game-based learning strategies can be designed, implemented, and evaluated to improve clinical educational thinking and outcomes and increase exposure to critical experiences to inform clinicians during the journey from novice to expert. The text also describes how game-based learning methods can support the development of complex decision-making and critical thinking skills. Case studies throughout demonstrate the practical application of harnessing technology as a teaching/learning device.

• Provides strategies for developing, integrating, and evaluating game-based learning methods for nursing and healthcare educators
• Prepares teachers for the paradigm shift from static "e-learning" to dynamic distance experiential learning in virtual and game-based environments
• Illustrates how to integrate game-based learning into existing curricula
• Offers theoretical and practical examples of how game-based learning technologies can be used in nursing and clinical education

Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN, is Associate Director for the Simulation Centers of Excellence at DeVry University.

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Part I -Language and theory for virtual and game-based Learning in Nursing and Healthcare

Ch 1. Evolving field of virtual environments and game-based learning in Nursing

Ch 2. Digital and multi-media literacy, understanding the language for game-based learning

Ch 3 Virtual Learning Spaces: Using New and Emerging Game-Based Learning Theories for Nursing Clinical Skills Development

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

I LANGUAGE AND THEORY FOR VIRTUAL AND GAME-BASED LEARNING IN NURSING AND HEALTHCARE

1 Evolving Field of Virtual Environments and Game-Based Learning

in Nursing

2 Digital and Multimedia Literacy: Understanding the Language for

Game-Based Learning

3 Virtual Learning Spaces: Using New and Emerging Game-Based

Learning Theories for Nursing Clinical Skills Development

II USING TECHNOLOGY AND GAME-BASED LEARNING IN YOUR CURRICULUM AND IN YOUR ìCLASSROOMî

4 Preparing Faculty and Students for Game-Based and Virtual

Learning Spaces

5 Using Virtual and Game-Based Learning to Prepare for Actual Practice

6 Fitting Virtual Reality and Game-Based Learning Into an

Existing Curriculum

7 Striving for Cultural Competency by Leveraging Virtual Reality and

Game-Based Learning

III EVALUATION

8 Assessing and Evaluating Learning and Teaching Effectiveness: Games, Sims,and Starcraft 2

9 Seeking Research Opportunities in Virtual and

Game-Based Environments

Appendix of Resources/Products

Glossary

Index

Part II -Using Technology and Game-Based Learning in your curriculum and in your ""classroom""

Ch 4 Preparing faculty and students for game-based and virtual learning spaces.

Ch 5 Using virtual and game-based learning to prepare for actual practice.

Ch 6 Fitting virtual reality and game-based learning into an Existing Curriculum.

Ch 7 Striving for cultural competency by leveraging virtual reality and game-based learning

Part III Evaluation

Ch 8 Assessing and Evaluating Learning and Teaching Effectiveness: Games, Sims, and Starcraft II

Ch 9 Seeking research opportunities in virtual and game-based environments

Appendix of Resources/Products

Glossary of terms

Index