Transformational Play Spaces for Microeconomics With EconU

As students advance in our educational system, disengagement increases and may contribute to high drop out rates in higher education. Video game play can be a tool to re-engage learners in powerful ways. Transformational Play theory includes conceptual understandings to make sense of and transform a problem-based fictional context. Informed by this theory, the focus of our work is to examine the potential of a game-based learning environment to provide an opportunity for improved learning for an undergraduate economics course.