What interested you in video games as a form of teaching?
Games and simulations have interested me for quite awhile, but when I starting my first MMO, World of Warcraft, last Fall, I began to study it as a way to teach and as a learning aid.
What interested me was the way that WoW actually taught new players how to play the game - basically they start with very easy 'quests' and give pop hints as the user needs them - that is to say they make success easy to begin with and then add contextual help. This helps the user to feel successful and accomplished.
Also, I see games as a way for schools and education in general to move into the new paradigm of learning. Charles Reigeluth talks about this shift in the video link to the right. The famous SciFi novel "Ender's Game" by Greensboro author Orson Scott Card also relates how games might be used in the future.
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