1st Edition

Designing Learning with Digital Play A Multimodal Perspective

By Fei Victor Lim, Weimin Toh Copyright 2026
216 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this book, Lim and Toh explore digital play and children’s instinctive way of exploring the world to bring together research on digital play and learning, and unite game-based learning with multimodality and social semiotics. Digital play opens up immersive and interactive worlds where children can engage with complex problems, craft stories, and experiment with ideas in ways that often go... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Overview of the Book

1. Learning and Play in the Digital Age

2. Exploring Digital Play for Learning

3. Digital Play and Literacy Development

4. Digital Play and Affective Learning

5. Multimodal Composing in Digital Play

6. Designing Learning in Digital Co-Play

7. Digital Divide in Play and Learning

8. Advancing Digital Play for Learning


Index

Biography

Fei Victor Lim is Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research), English Language and Literature Department, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is interested in how and what we should teach learners in today’s digital age.

Weimin Toh is Research Fellow at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is interested in game studies, game-based learning, and player experience research.