Future of game-based Learning

Krigskonfekt: New Game at Serious Games Interactive (only in Danish)

egenfeldt — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:00:29 +0000

We just released a new game related to a theater show on the experience of refugee from Bosnia. The theater is really great and is one of the few I have seen that take in youngsters. You can see more about the Theater here, and the game here.

Game based teaching NING kicking off Hot-seat discussions

egenfeldt — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:03:45 +0000

Trying to get things started with a small post on what/how to use games in school. See more on the NING.

Master class at 4th European Conference on Game-Based Learning

egenfeldt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:08:31 +0000

In connection with the 4th European Conference on Game-Based Learning in Copenhagen, Denmark, we invite PhD students in the field of Game-Based Learning to attend a Master class where they can network and obtain feedback and guidance on their work. I will be heading the master class with Patrick Felicia from Waterford Institute of Technology

The Master class will consist of presentations and discussions on the topic of Game-Based Learning. Each paper previously submitted by participants will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers composed of one of the two lecturers and another participant.

The participation of students at different stages of their PhD is encouraged: Early Work (e.g., literature review), Intermediate Stage (e.g., elaboration of framework, design of experiments), and Advanced Stage (e.g., collection and/or analysis of data).

More info follows when we get final approval on it.

Save the date: 19th November

Lawyer game

egenfeldt — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:34:26 +0000

Back from the holidays and browsing through stuff. It seems most have been on holidays, but the below there is a pretty good review of an learning game on constitutional rights over the the Educational Games Research Blog.

P.S: If you sent me a mail and haven’t received a response chances are it was last in a Harddisk crash I am still recovering from.

Funny idea

egenfeldt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:46:08 +0000

So the Frankfurter Buch Messe is trying to get a bit of momentum with an idea where people publish ideas on what is to come, and then people’s comments counts as points towards winning an Ipad. I already have one Ipad and will probably buy 1-2 more in Spain in two weeks, but nevertheless check it out here.

Playing History – The Plague wins first Prize

egenfeldt — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:21:39 +0000

We recently won first place in a competition for learning games. Lets hope this is the beginning of a beautiful journey for Playing History.

Why can’t game-based learning be more like this..

egenfeldt — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:16 +0000

Usually I am not too impressed with either children titles or learning games, but some times there are small nuggets. And although this one is in Danish I am sure you can find other translation, and get the feel for it by trying it on. The game is not innovative its just so well executed, which always is hard to deed. The game is for quite small children – be sure to check out the frogs behind the curtain in the bath tub. In Danish its called ‘Lille og Stor‘ (Little & Big).

Microsoft office as a game

egenfeldt — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:31:46 +0000

Quite an interesting presentation about gamifying Microsoft office..

Danish Education Ministry on the Beat

egenfeldt — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:27:43 +0000

The Danish Education Ministry have a tradition where influential educational people pass each other a question (stafet) in relation to challenges in the educational system. This time I got it in relation to Game-Based learning, which there came a nice little piece out of . Check it on Education Ministry Site.

Gamefication 2

egenfeldt — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:02:12 +0000

So it seems that indeed the trend is strong. Now Google seems to be picking up on the trend with the talk below by Ben Sawyer, and Google working to natively run Unity3D (and similar) in Chrome .

Also there are some interesting thoughts on Urgent Evoke that is an ARG. I tried it and found it too difficult for my taste, but take a look at this well thought through evaluation of the project by Rex Brynen. It seems that the WBI is getting into the area and at Serious Games Interactive we had some really interesting talks about the potential, which they made a small video from.