Spring 2027

Videogames & Learning

VideoGames & Learning explores current research on videogames, critically reflecting on their educational merits, drawbacks, and cultural impact on thinking.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Danni TangEda ZhangKrista-Lee Malone +4 more

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.86 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=189 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 96.8% A/AB (n=186 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=185 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

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CURRIC 277

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.86 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=189 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 96.8% A/AB (n=186 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=185 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KRISTA-LEE MALONE is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 2000
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Online Only0 / 200
DIS 303Online Only0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Online Only0 / 200
DIS 309Online Only0 / 200
DIS 307Online Only0 / 200
DIS 310Online Only0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.86 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=189 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 96.8% A/AB (n=186 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=185 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Current research on videogames and learning.
  • Intellectual and educational merits and drawbacks of videogames.
  • How videogame culture shapes individual thought and learning processes.

Skills

  • Critical reflection on the intellectual and educational merits and drawbacks of videogames.
  • Analyzing how videogame culture shapes individual thinking and learning.

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.06 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
CURRIC 277 · Spring 2027

Videogames & Learning

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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    "offering_id": "1274:272:023567",
    "course_id": "CURRIC 277",
    "course_uid": "course_81fe76f586c10586ea7103c7",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "023567",
    "source_subject_id": "272",
    "title": "Videogames & Learning",
    "credits_min": 3,
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    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring"
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]
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "05e856493e65078a717413de06488b2ac4f914239911d737a5307f165d5e4df9",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
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