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Academic Writing

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My Doctorate

Academic writing · 2013

Somewhere in 2007 I started writing a doctorate, in Hebrew, about computer games. In 2013, after seven years of work, I submitted it. What I was after was a way to explain how and why computer games developed the way they did, and in the end I proposed a theoretical model that does exactly that.

As far as I know it was the first doctorate written on computer games in Hebrew. There were already a handful of works in psychology and education that touched on computer games, but I think I was the first to make them the central object of the research.

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The title page — The Techno-Narrative Artifact, technology, culture and the construction of computer games, Bar-Ilan University
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Game Mechanics in Teaching: A Course Can Be a Game Too

Academic writing · 2018

An article I wrote about my experience turning an entire course into a game, published in 2018 in the book "Digital Pedagogy: An Opportunity for Different Learning".

Feel free to read it.

The first page of the article, chapter 2 — Game Mechanics in Teaching, A Course Can Be a Game Too