Major survey on learning & games

Things are heating up here with Serious Games in a good way so 2010 looks to be good. On the research area we are getting a really interesting survey up and running (if it works). The idea is to examine the actual prevalence of different forms of educational use of games throughout a number of major countries (UK, US, Portugal, Denmark, Finland and Norway). The focus is on differentiating between different teacher types and games & learning typology based on work by Thorkild Hanghøj and Christian Engel Brund.

We will be very strict with sampling to get representative study, and have a more detailed understanding of for example usage of games in education in relation to making games, games literacy and learning through games – very different ways of using games that calls for very different didactics and with different underpinnings in terms of motivations/drivers for use.