This lecture by Josefin Westborg discusses learning theories related to behaviorism with regard to their relevance to role-playing games for education.

In this video you will be asked to watch two other videos. These are
Sprouts School's "Pavlov's Classical Conditioning" (first 2 min 43 seconds) https://youtu.be/jd7Jdug5SRc
and Sprouts School's "Skinner's Operant Conditioning" (first 2 min 55 seconds)
https://youtu.be/ne6o-uPJarA

This video is part three (3) in a seven (7) part series on Role-playing Games for Education from the Transformative Play Initiative at the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University. The series includes:

"Introduction to Learning Theories" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/ZthDPS7HDQ4
"Role-playing Games for Education" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/dFjm12POPwI
"Cognitivism" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/wxSBaKT-5xo
"Learning in Praxis" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/axSLa8Cb1qc
"Constructivism and Constructionism" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/sXdfhj0618k
"Learning Theory: Social Constructivism" -- Josefin Westborg: https://youtu.be/2cVroxE2VAI

This video is part of the course Introduction to Transformative Game Design, an online course with open registration for anyone with a Bachelor's degree and English proficiency. This course is taught at the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University.

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Bios: Josefin Westborg is one of the world’s leading designers in edu-larps. She has a background in game design and pedagogy and is one of the founders of Lajvbyrån (previously LajvVerkstaden Väst). She now works as a Lecturer as part of the Transformative Play Initiative with focus on analogue games at Uppsala University at the Department of Game Design. Throughout her career she has met thousands of students of all ages, and run and designed larps for them. She has also been a teacher in game design at both Chalmers University of technology and the University of Gothenburg. She is passionate about designing for interaction, storytelling and learning. When she is not involved with games you will probably find her at the dance studio doing ballroom dancing.