Sasha Barab

Sasha Barab is currently a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, where he has been working since 2011. Dr. Barab also serves as the director of the Center for Games and Impact at ASU. He is CEO of Lifelab Studios, an organization that specializes in providing solutions to businesses (both private and public) to help their members feel connected through collaborative communities as they work together to accomplish organizational goals. Dr. Barab’s research focuses on educational design and game use to make an impact with learners. Some of his most cited work includes

• Barab, S., Squire, K. (2004). Design-based research: Putting a stake in the ground. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 1-14.

• Barab, S. A., & Duffy, T. (2000). From practice fields to communities of practice. In D. Jonassen, & S. M. Land. (Eds.). Theoretical foundations of learning environments (pp. 25-56). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• Barab, S., Thomas, M., Dodge, T., Carteaux, R., & Tuzun, H. (2005). Making learning fun: Quest Atlantis, a game without guns. Educational technology research and development, 53(1), 86-107.

Video:

• The Power of Games

Websites:

• Google Scholar

• sashabarab.org