Institute of Play & Katie Salen

The institute of play is a corporation funded in 2007, who's mission is to promote game design, games and gaming as a model tool to enhance personal and social development, in particular learning in secondary school students. 

They have also developed Quest to Learn, a New York City public school designed around game design principles and based on over thirty years of learning research. The school encourages hands-on problem solving, and is designed to promote learning of 21st century skills many experts say are necessary for college and career success, such as systems thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy. Not only do they play games in the classrooms, they learn to make them in order to demonstrate their systems and thinking's.

Katie Salen is the Executive Director of Institute of Play, and a designer of Quest to Learn.