Gamify Your College Classroom: Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking and Life Skills Across Disciplines

Gamify Your College Classroom is an instructor playbook for nurturing life skills through the incorporation and customization of games and game elements into coursework. Featuring a robust contributor team representing a range of institutions and disciplines, this guide provides detailed case studies and strategies to promote critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and even AI literacy. In a world in which ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies tempt students to take a passive route, the approaches in this book are designed to foster strategic planners and open-minded decision-makers. By allowing students to gain knowledge through their choices, take responsibility for their learning, and expand and enrich their perspectives on diversity and empathy, this book equips college faculty and instructors with the tools they need to optimize real-world skill building.