The Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology is both an annual event and a year-round online discussion of ways that faculty are using technology to enhance teaching, learning, and research.
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Individuals with autism have difficulties interacting in the social world. Unfortunately, interventions designed to improve social skills have had limited success. A new online technology that is gaining empirical support for enhancing learning in many domains involves the use of video game mechanics to create “serious games.” This technology may be especially useful for helping individuals with autism learn about and develop social skills because they can learn to practice new skills in engaging online contexts, without requiring face-to-face interactions with highly trained clinical personnel (e.g., the current model, which is expensive and not accessible to many individuals with autism).
