Lives in Transit: Global History E-Learning Tool

Please visit www.livesintransit.org to get the experience of researching and writing global history.

Prof. Dr. Martin Dusinberre, S3IT and external partners

“Lives in Transit” is a tool both to narrate and to teach global history in a digitized age. It offers historians a model for presenting their research in the form of serious gaming; and the game itself simulates the real-life experience of research for global history students. The game storylines, which all grow out of scholarly work (both published and unpublished), present users with numerous tasks that recreate authentic academic situations, including the gathering and analysis of sources, practical problem-solving during fieldwork, and negotiations with colleagues under the pressure of deadlines. Once they have reached the end of a storyline, users will be ready to draft a research output—an essay, a conference paper, a website or a podcast. The game was launched in May 2020.