Connection?

Gaming could connect with learning certainly by making the experience more enjoyable. Gaming is a more fun alternative to learning rather than sitting through lectures and taking notes. Like in Oregon Trail for instance, they give you the options that the travelers had. Some of these options included: what could be purchased at the market, the time of year to leave, the supplies you'd need. It's much easier to think back to the game and what you had chosen, and what the end result was of those decisions, rather than think back to the notes/lecture. Just the fact that gaming is more interactive and keeps you awake, as apposed to notes.