Learning English by Speaking English in an Immersive Online Roleplaying Game

From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Dylan Arena, Co-founder and Chief Learning Scientist of Kidaptive, describes a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game intended to help elementary-aged children in Korea learn to speak English. Dylan also offers a behind-the-scenes look at how an academic-minded educational-technology startup (Stanford-founded Kidaptive, which recently acquired Hodoo English) researches and designs improvements to an extant ed-tech product.