Sean Duncan

Biography

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Sean C. Duncan is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor in Interactive Media, an Assistant Professor within Miami University’s School of Education, Health and Society as well as Miami’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. He earned his PhD in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, working within the Games+Learning+Society group.

In his work, Sean investigates the productive learning and literacy implications of online communities around videogames. Focusing on uncovering elements of design thinking, collaborative learning, informal scientific reasoning, and new media literacies, he critiques current American educational models while looking at games as a means to create valuable new spaces for informal learning. With Elisabeth Hayes, he is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume entitled New Literacies in Videogaming Affinity Spaces (to be published in 2011 by Peter Lang Publishing).

Previously, Sean earned a master’s degree in cognitive psychology, worked as a usability analyst at Microsoft, was a collegiate interdisciplinary educator, and was a manager of web-based learning systems to support educator professional development (for Project Dragonfly, an NSF-funded initiative to foster inquiry-based science).

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