Facilitating Engagement, Empathy and Critical thinking through the use of videogames in a College Classroom

• Johnathan Mina and Pascale Warmoes

This project, which received the 2021 PREP research grant, investigates the use of entertainment-based videogames as an educational tool in CEGEP courses. Our research measures whether the videogames we choose had a measurable impact on our student’s critical thinking skills and empathy levels in both a Humanities and the Special Care Counselling course. Our presentation will focus on presenting our research findings and offer a written guide to help teachers implement videogames in their courses.

For the full abstract of the presentations, please refer to the Conference Program