playful thoughts on games and learning
The newly-formed Association for Learning Technology Special Interest Group on Games and Learning (more on this in a post coming soon) has just started a reading group. I thought I would use this group as an opportunity to write about…
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The EU LUDUS project aims to create a “European Network for the transfer of knowledge and dissemination of best practices in the innovative field of serious games”. The knowledge node web site for the project looks like it will become…
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the first Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning, hosted by Patrick Felicia at the Waterford Institute of Technology. I felt that this was a well-designed event, offering perspectives from schools, universities and commercial training…
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Interesting article in the guardian yesterday (via @mikedicks) discussing research that computer gamers are less likely to go to university. This research tracked 17,000 born in 1970 and looked at their likelihood of going on to get a degree, finding…
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A couple of weeks ago, I was invited up to Dundee to present at Game To Learn 2. It was a good day, and I saw some excellent presentations, notably by Daniel Livingstone, Michelle Hoyle and Greg Hodgeson, who is…
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The 2011 Horizon report (pdf), has just been published. This is an annual report by the New Media Consortium that attempts to future-gaze and identify technologies that will have an impact on Higher Education in the short, medium and long…
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