Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
The Making Games in Collaboration for Learning (MAGICAL) project, in which we’re a partner, has just released an updated version of its list of game-making environments (pdf). It contains information about nearly forty different game-building tools, classified by cost, game-type,…
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to Tampere to act as an opponent in a doctoral defence. Coming from the UK, where a PhD viva involves being asked difficult questions for a hour (if…
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…
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…
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…