Kurt Squire is a Professor in the School of Education and is a co-director of the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) center. Squire's research investigates the potential of video game-based technologies for systemic change in education. His work integrates research and theory on digital media (particularly games) with theories of situated cognition in order to understand how to design educational environments in a digital age. Squire was a co-founder of joystick101.org, the author/editor of three books, and over 75 scholarly publications on learning with technology.