Can massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft produce better citizens?
That’s the provocative conclusion drawn by University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor Constance Steinkuehler, who has been intensely studying MMOGs and those who play them — including herself — for several years.
On Tuesday night, she laid out the evidence in a presentation called “Learning and Virtual Worlds: The Education Benefits of Digital Technologies” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Hall.