I’ve spent the last several years adovcating for the use of games in education. I was fortunate to have a boss who was receptive to the notion (and in fact had led the development of one application prior to my arrival at Bowdoin, but though we dabbled with the Sims Online, no projects emerged during my time there (though I did ultimately contribute to the Flight to Freedom project). Today I happened across this proposal for a PhD. She’s going to study ‘learning’ in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), a genre of games I’ve tinkered quite a bit with myself. Seeing proposals like this make me consider actually moving on to my doctorate – if the work can be fun for me and as engaging as I am sure this proposal will end up being, why not go for it?