美国教育游戏研究发展新动向——威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校Kurt Squire教授访谈

Recent Development of Educational Games Research in the United States—— An Interview with Professor Kurt Squire at University of Wisconsin-Madison

库特·斯奎尔(Kurt Squire)，美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校(University ofWisconsin-Madison)教育学院课程与教学系教授，现任威斯康星探索研究所(WisconsinInstitute for Discovery)“游戏+学习+社会”(GLS，Games+Learning+Society)中心负责人。库特·斯奎尔教授的研究兴趣主要是探索电子游戏技术对教育系统改变的潜力，关注电子游戏对学习、学校以及社会的影响。其研究工作整合了情境认知理论与数字媒体理论，尤其是电子游戏相关理论，从社会文化视角设计基于游戏的学习环境。他的研究工作主要包括游戏和虚拟环境设计，游戏与游戏文化分析，基于游戏环境的学习研究等几个方面。库特·斯奎尔教授早期研究工作关注的是应用电子游戏“文明III”(Civilization III)教授学生历史，以此为题的博士论文也是美国最早一批从事基于电子游戏的学习研究的论著之一。\r库特·斯奎尔教授曾是麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology，MIT)Games-to-Teach项目的研究管理者以及Education Arcade项目的负责人之一。库特·斯奎尔教授学术成果丰富，在技术支持的学习领域出版了3本著作，超过75篇学术论文。库特·斯奎尔教授指导了多个基于游戏的学习项目，如，开发移动学习体验的开放源代码平台“增强现实与交互式故事讲述”(Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling，ARIS)。库特·斯奎尔教授主持了多项基金项目，包括美国国家科学基金(U.S. National Science Foundation)，美国教育部基金(U.S.Department of Education)，国家卫生研究院基金(National Institute for Health Foundation)等，以及来自微软，AMD以及盖茨基金会的基金支持。在本篇访谈中，库特·斯奎尔教授为我们介绍了美国近十年教育游戏研究发展的历程，结合所在团队的具体的研究工作，详细介绍了研究工作开展的过程以及研究方法的应用，并给出教育游戏未来发展最具潜力的几个方向。

Kurt Squire is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at University of Wisconsin-Madison， and Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society Center in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Squire’s researchmainly investigates the potential of video game-based technologies for systemic change in education， and focuses on the impact ofvideo games on learning， schooling， and society. Squire’s work integrates research and theory on digital media (particularly games)with theories of situated cognition in order to understand how to design game-based learning environments from a socioculturalperspective. Squire’s research includes design of video games and virtual learning environments， analysis of games and gamesculture， and game-based learning. His early work focused on using Civilization III as a way to teach history， and his Ph.D.dissertation entitled “Replaying History:learning world history through playing Civilization III” was one of the first video game-baseddissertations in the United States.Before coming to Wisconsin， Squire was Research Manager of the Games-to-Teach Project at MIT，and Co-Director of the Education Arcade.Squire is the author or editor of three books， and over 75 scholarly publications on learningwith technology. Squire has directed several game-based learning projects， for example， ARIS (Augmented Reality and InteractiveStorytelling) is a tool for place-based mobile app development. Squire’s research has been supported by National Science Foundation，the Department of Education， National Institute for Health， the Microsoft， the AMD Foundation， and the Gates Foundation. Duringthis interview Professor Kurt Squire introduced the development of educational games research in the United States in last ten years，and told us in detail about the research progress and application of research methods based on their group’s work， and then putforward several potential aspects in the field of educational games in the future.