I ran across an article several months ago, an article long lost to google by now, about a history teacher taking students through a historical journey by means of modding The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. I doubt he ever followed through, (if he did, NexusMods was never made aware of it), but this is exactly what I think 21st century learning needs.

>I mean, Morrowind is fairly easy to mod, maybe not as easy as skyrim, but you get the idea. So how cool would it be if teachers designed their lesson plans by recreating events in Morrowind’s universe. Ok, the architecture might be different, but you can spell everything out in dialogue and quest lines.

>Now, there is another reason I would choose Morrowind over Skyrim or Oblivion. Morrowind has NO quest markers or fast travel. You get a Journal. That’s it. So this forces the player to pay attention to dialogue to even know where to go. Players are spoiled nowadays with quest markers and arrow paths; they allow you to skip all dialogue and just push through the game. So, with Morrowind, players will be more apt to read dialogue because well, they have to in order to win. And people don’t like to lose, so they won’t feel cheated having to read text, just challenged.

>There’s no tests. No homework. No Lectures. It would give you a first person account of what really happened. It’s the closest thing we have to time travel right now!

>PS. I'm working on something similar right now if anyone wants to join in. :)

I find this to be an intriguing idea, and will suggest the idea else where to get the idea out there.

Let me know how everything works out with your project :)

It seems very fun. I'd definitely do that. I modded Doom in high school for math class..

This idea had been thoroughly put into action here: http://minecraftedu.com/
The project is also officialy endorsed by Mojang

as a Gamer this would be ideal for me or just about anyone else

VivaLaPanda- See, the only problem with Minecraft, is it really only appeals to a small group of people. (Assuming we're speaking off the statistics of my own school. :P ) And the potential for dialogue and in depth story-telling really isn't there. I mean, sure it's possible, but it's not near as fluid as Morrowind would be, nor as easy to implement. Not to mention, immersion would be incredibly low. It'd be more exciting to slice up an orc with excalibur than it would be to punch an 8-bit skeleton. Not that I wouldn't support the project, but I don't think that this resembles my own project.

Thanks for the interest, I'll post a few screenshots of what I have soon. :)