The Tetris Effect

<h4>Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a contributing editor at <em>The Atlantic</em>. He is the author of <em>Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games </em>and other works.</h4>
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Ian Bogost

Russian Invasion: On Dan Ackerman’s “The Tetris Effect”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Gamelife

In the Habit

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Perpetual Adolescence: The Fullbright Company’s “Gone Home”

<h4>Ray Schroeder&nbsp;is professor emeritus and associate vice chancellor for online learning at the University of Illinois Springfield and director of the new Center for Online Leadership and Strategy at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.&nbsp;He has published the popular <a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html">Online Learning Update</a> and <a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html">Educational Technology</a> daily blogs for the past dozen years. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/rayschroeder">@rayschroeder</a>.</h4>

Ray Schroeder

<h4>Cathy N. Davidson is a historian of technology and cultural change. She holds two distinguished chairs at Duke University, is cofounder of a 12,000 network member nonprofit Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (<a href="http://hastac.org/" target="_blank">hastac.org</a>, or &ldquo;haystack&rdquo;), and codirector of the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions. Her books include <em>The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age</em>&nbsp;(with HASTAC cofounder David Theo Goldberg; 2010) and&nbsp;<em>Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century</em><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(2011).</h4>

Cathy N. Davidson

<h4>Al Filreis is Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as faculty director of the Kelly Writers House, director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, co-director of PennSound, and publisher of <em>Jacket2</em>. His books include <em>Modernism from Left to Right: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism </em>(1994) and&nbsp;<em>Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60</em> (2008). He has taught a massive open online course, &ldquo;ModPo,&rdquo; to 36,000 students.</h4>

Al Filreis

MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)

MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)

Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a contributing editor at <em>The Atlantic</em>. He is the author of <em>Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games </em>and other works.

