Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
It’s some way off yet, but this year’s European Conference on Game-Based Learning will be hosted in Athens on 20-21 October. As well as the general call for papers, there are a number of mini-tracks, including one chaired by myself…
The first issue of the International Journal of Game Based Learning has just been published, with a mission to “promote knowledge pertinent to the design of Game-Based Learning environments, and to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research…
It’s been a busy month, and things are piling up in my ‘things to blog about folder’. So, I’m going to get a couple of these up here now. First off is what looks like an good event, Game To…
This week I have mostly been playing a business simulation called simCEO. I’ve used a couple of other simulations of this type in the past and at first glance it’s pretty typical: students create a company, complete various activities associated…
Last week I was invited to give a seminar to OUCS and rather than a more usual games talk, I decided to consider the role of fun in learning. This is a topic that seems to come up regularly at…
I was pleased to be asked to contribute to the University of Adelaide’s Transforming Assessment webinar series this week (without fully appreciating that this would involve being able to string a coherent sentence together at eight in the morning). There…