Video games might usually be considered a mindless distraction from schoolwork, but one learning community at the University of Ohio’s Bowling Green camps believes the exact opposite.

The one-year-old learning community, called “applying principles of video game design to improve student learning,” aims to do just that: use the philosophies of video games to better the classroom experience.

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