eduweb: services: our approach

Learning through gameplay

WolfQuest - Try to survive as a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park, playing alone or with friends in online multiplayer missions.

Since 1996, eduweb has developed over one hundred digital learning games and interactives for museums, zoos, and other educational organizations. Our mantra as digital educators is simple: What we do must both excite a generation of youth raised on video games and fast-paced television and offer them a cognitive and creative experience that goes beyond what traditional media and hands-on experiences can easily accomplish.

We seek to engage the many ways people learn with the thoughtful application of learning theory, imaginative conceptualizations, and unflinching evaluation. Our broad experience in museum and K-12 education, combined with our deep subject knowledge of art, history and science, fuels our commitment to develop compelling and effective learning experiences.

We collaborate closely with each of our clients during all phases of design and production to ensure that the final product fulfills the client's aesthetic vision, communication and educational goals, and technical parameters. Each project merits a unique solution based on the client's content, audience, and educational goals.

Creation, experimentation, exploration, imagination—play is central to so many kinds of learning. Over the past decade, we have made play a central goal for our learning interactives as well. Create a beautiful artwork or an exciting movie. Design a desert house or a rainforest beetle. Spend a day as a wild wolf or colonial apprentice. Our efforts are borne out by our recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation, which found that play value is more important than other factors such as gender and learning style in predicting children's responses to an online interactive. Play is motivating, absorbing and inspiring. We believe it's an essential ingredient for compelling learning experiences.

Games take "play" and wrap it in rules. Strangely, that only makes them more fun. Games engage the imagination, foster motivation, offer context, and provide scaffolding for effective learning. Digital technology lets us design games that recreate the rules of nature and society in a rich, contextual world for players to explore. As a recognized leader in the field of digital learning games for informal education, eduweb designs meaningful, enthralling games about the real world.