Dr. Jen Jenson is the course creator (with Prof. Suzanne de Castell) and is Professor of Digital Languages, Literacies, and Cultures in the Department of Languages and Literacies in the Faculty of Education at UBC. Prior to moving to BC, she worked at York University in Toronto, where she was the Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Learning. Jenson has published on gender and technology, technology policies and policy practices in K-12 schooling, online education, video games and learning, and gender and digital games. She is the Lead researcher on a 2.5 million dollar grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Re-Figuring Innovation in Games“.

Dr. Samuel McCready is a Lecturer in the MET program, teaching various courses across the program as well as co-authoring ETEC 565T: Ethical and Professional use of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning. His dissertation work, “Playing and Making History: How Game Design and Gameplay Afford Opportunities for a Critical Engagement with the Past,” presented findings from two participant-based research projects and argued that playing and making historical games offers learners an opportunity to engage critically with history as a subject, and can pose questions related to the epistemological, interpretative, and ideological components of historical scholarship. His current research is in game studies/game-based learning, productive pedagogies, and history education, as well as AI/genAI, with a particular focus on its impact on ways of knowing, learning, and teaching. 

Dr. Rachel Horst is an education scholar and educator whose research examines the evolving dynamics of meaning-making in our digitally saturated world. Using digital arts-informed research methodologies, collaborative design, and digital tools and platforms, her research cultivates transformative learning experiences that deepen understanding and expand communicative capacities. Through creative digitally mediated methods, including games and speculative imagining tools, she seeks to cultivate creative, nimble, curious, and intelligent practices for thriving together in uncertain times. Check out her publishing on her website https://www.rachelhorst.ca/.