playful thoughts on games and learning
Unfortunately I was double-booked for Dave White’s talk at ALT-C, but I did manage to grab him for 15 minutes to get up to speed with the cool games stuff he’s been doing.The OpenHabitat project has carried out two pilot…
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‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’I always wondered how long it would take someone to create ‘Second Life’ within Second Life (would that be Third Life?).
The link to the Passively Multiplayer Online Game has been sitting in my ‘to investigate’ list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn’t get any work done at all. Fortunately,…
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It’s been really hard to find a few minutes to sit down and blog over the last couple of weeks, what with lots of projects and extracurricular activities taking over my life. However, I when I found this site I…
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I’ve been (slowly) catching up with my reading on MMORPGS. Here are summaries of another couple of papers I’ve read recently. Dickey (2006) describes the elements of MMORPGs that he hypothesises foster intrinsic motivation, in particular the character design and…
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Mark Wagner has recently posted six articles to his blog on MMORPGs in education, based on the feedback from an expert panel as part of his doctoral work. These articles look at the areas of: motivation and engagement, context-embedded learning,…
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