Spencer Striker Digital Learning
Games, interactive stories, VR, and podcasts that make learning something you do, not something you sit through. Built by Spencer Striker, PhD, Professor of Digital Media Design at Northwestern University in Qatar. All of it free to use.
THE WORK
Dynamic, experiential learning.
For over twenty years, I've built learning experiences that put the learner in the driver's seat. You run a troll farm in Chaos Corp and watch how disinformation actually spreads. You work an outbreak as the world's greatest disease detective in Dr. Sara. You face the wicked problems of history, and the people who lived them, in Empires & Interconnections.
Putting the learner inside the problem, instead of describing it to them, is the whole idea behind game-based learning, and it drives everything here. Every title is professionally produced and competitively grant-funded. All of it is free. People often reach out assuming there's a price, and are surprised to find they can just use it.
Discover satirical, role-reversal games that teach how disinformation works by letting you run the operation yourself. Home of the Anthem Award-winning Chaos Corp.
Investigate outbreaks, walk plague-era Venice, stand inside ancient Athens in VR. Games and immersive experiences that build public health literacy through story.
Explore the NEH-funded series that turns history into something you move through, built on narrative design, animation, and real choice.
Engage with long-form conversations on learning in the age of AI, plus an archive of interviews on digital culture across the Middle East.
Recognition & Funding
Winner of the Anthem Awards, the Webby Awards, the Davey Awards, the Horizon Interactive Awards, the w3 Awards, and the Reimagine Education Awards. Supported by competitive funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Qatar National Research Fund, the Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council, and the Doha Film Institute.
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