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Academic Writing

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My PhD Dissertation

Academic writing · 2013

Somewhere in 2007 I started writing a PhD dissertation, in Hebrew, about video games. In 2013, after seven years of work, I submitted it. In my dissertation I explained how and why video games developed the way they did, and in the end I proposed a theoretical model that can help explaine exactly that.

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

Feel free to read more...

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

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