Kurt Squire

Kurt Squire is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he directs the Participatory Learning Group within the Connected Learning Lab. He previously co-directed the Games+Learning+Society Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University.

Squire researches games, learning, and digital media, and has authored more than 100 publications on these subjects. His books include Making Games for Impact (MIT Press, 2021), Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age, and the edited volume Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age.