Department of Media and Information
Graduate students in Media and Information use the latest tools and advanced learning spaces to gain a solid foundation for their future career, setting themselves apart from students of other betboom dachamedia graduate programs. With cutting-edge technology at your fingertips, you'll learn how individuals, groups and organizations design, use and consume media and information.
In this three-course graduate certificate program, you'll gain insights into serious game theories, design, development and human-centered design. Take classes completely online or through hybrid courses and learn the current and future landscape of serious game design.
Dr. Rabindra (Robby) Ratan runs MSU's Social and Psychological Approaches to Research on Technology-Interaction Effects (SPARTIE) Lab: www.spartie.org. His research examines how media technologies like XR (e.g., VR, AR, MR), avatars, agents/AI, and video games influence meaningful outcomes (e.g., equity, well-being, and motivation) across societal contexts (e.g., education, health, business). His key interests include the Proteus effect, human-AI interaction, gender stereotypes in gaming, and virtual meetings. Since 2022, he has been teaching his betboom casino reviewclasses in virtual reality, leveraging VR to provide immersive educational experiences, and has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles, receiving significant grant funding from diverse sources. He is founder of the MSU XR Co-Op and the Meaningful XR conference: www.meaningfulxr.org