The Hopkins Games Program: Conclusions from Seven Years of Research

Abstract

Since September, 1966, the central question uniting and guidng the research of the Games Program at The Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools has been: How do games create and influence learning? Natural games (i.e., sports and games that children play in their free time, unsupervised by adults) and instructional games (both simulation and non-simulation games) have been studied to determine how playing a game with a defined social organization or structure contributes to learning.