Shree Durga is a graduate student in the Educational Communications and Technology program at UW Madison. Her background is in computer science. Before joining the graduate program she worked as a software developer in the IT industry in India. She has also worked as a content developer for an online learning club for management and banking professionals.

Shree is interested in socio-cultural aspects of learning in video games and game-based learning environments. She works with Prof. Kurt Squire, Ben and Levi in an after-school program (which they call the CivCamp), where middle school kids play the history simulation game Civilization III. She studies how Civilization III as a history simulation tool mediates players' perceptions about global history and geography. She also focuses on players' interactions in and around the game and how collaborative multiplayer game spaces shape and reshape players' understandings about different game strategies and help construct their perceptions about different historic civilizations. Her future goal is to study the long-term consequences of participation in these kinds of after-school game clubs and work towards building and establishing archetypes for learning in these environments.

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