Learning Innovation invites students to join Duke’s first-ever Global Game Jam! Katya Gorecki, one of our Bass Digital Education Fellows, leads this new initiative as part of her fellowship project. …
In this guest post, Enrique Cachafeiro, Education and Training Coordinator, Duke Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, shares highlights from the 2019 Serious Play Conference. I recently had the pleasure of …
I recently attended the 6th Annual Serious Play Conference at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Serious Play is “a leadership conference for both those who create serious games/simulations and those …
Each year, the New Media Consortium (NMC), in cooperation with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, produces a report summarizing the latest findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project …
In this 15 minute video, Tom Chatfield makes compelling arguments on how lessons learned from gaming can be applied to education and other fields. His 7 lessons are :
Measuring constant progress, giving learners chances to constantly progress and showing that progress visually using experience bars.
Have multiple long and short term aims.
Reward effort constantly, even for […]
At the Duke University School of Medicine, students may soon be assigned an avatar in a virtual hospital setting and tasked with different patient care responsibilities. Dr. Jeff Taekman, in …
Event: “Innovation in Education, Technology, and Gaming” When: September 15, 2008 (8a – 2p) Where: UNC Charlotte Campus / Halton Arena What: Keynote: Robbie Bach, President, Entertainment & Devices Division, …
Google has just made public Lively, their virtual worlds application that’s similar to Second Life. Although it currently only works with Windows XP/Vista and Firefox/IE, it allows you to create …
A classified advertisement in last Sunday’s New York Times (2/3/08) states that New York University is “establishing a multi-school center for the research, design and development of electronic interactive games” …
