Category Events

Games on a budget

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…

Bits and pieces

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…

Fun and learning

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…

Games and assessment

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…

Making learning engaging

At ALT-C a couple of weeks ago, myself, Alex Moseley and a virtual Juliette Culver, presented a session called Back three spaces and roll again, which aimed to take the six elements of game engagement identified during the ARGOSI project…