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FEATURED BOOKS |
| Minds on Fire: How Role Immersion Games Transform College By: Mark Carnes In Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College, Mark Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students’ competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. ISBN: 978-0-674-73535-4 |
| Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past Edited by: C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP) as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement. ISBN: 978-3-319-61746-6 |
 | By: Nick Proctor
Professor Nicolas Proctor, currently the Executive Director for the Reacting Consortium, guides game designers through the best practices for creating effective and engaging Reacting to the Past games. ISBN: 978-1-460-91690-2 |
REACTING IN THE NEWS
Using Role Playing to Keep Students Engaged by Amy Curry | Reimagining the U.S. History Course by Steven Mintz |
How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging by Sarah Rose Cavanagh |
Using RTTP to Foster Vigorous Active Learning by Genevieve Amaral |
Be Open to New Learning Methods by Jordan Boyer |
Role-Playing the Progressives of 1912 by John Moser, interviewed by Ellen Tucker |
Role-Playing the French Revolution by Meghan Roberts |
Roleplaying Ancient Philosophy by Caleb Cohoe | by Jiaxin Wu |
Scaling Up High-Impact Instruction by Colleen Flaherty | Reacting to the Past Will Revive Your Teaching by José Bowen |
by Daniella J. Greenbaum |
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH & REVIEWS
Role Immersion in a History Course by Thomas C. Buchanan and Edward Palmer |
Harnessing Students' Competitive Spirit by Christine L. Albright | by Steven J. Stroessner, Laurie Susser Beckerman, and Alexis Whittaker |
Reviews of Role-Playing Classroom Games: RTTP by James A. Secord, David Pace, Yidi Wu, Jessica Blatt, Sean Jacobs, Saundra Schwartz, Rebecca Ard Boone, Suzanne M. Marilley, and M. Alison Kibler |
Adapting an "American" Pedagogy to Australasia by Jennifer Frost, Michaela J. R. Selway, Sara Buttsworth, Thomas C. Buchanan, Nicole Tarulevicz, and Edward Palmer |
Reacting to the (Public) Past™️ by Katie Stringer Clary |
by David Eick and Janel Pettes Guikema |
by Marie Gasper-Hulvat |
Teaching Philosophy Through a Role-Immersion Game: RTTP by Kathryn E. Joyce, Andy Lamey, and Noel Martin |
Impact of Reacting to the Past and Effect of Role on Student Attributes and Academic Outcomes by Robert S. Bledsoe and Deborah S. Richardson | Pushing Active Learning to the Extreme: Is It Worth It? by Robert S. Bledsoe and Kailea Manning |
A full list of Reacting books, articles, and peer-reviewed essays can also be found on our bibliography page.
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