Posted in Learning Series, OER/FREE, educational gaming on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
ZaidLearn’s Del.icio.us Games Links
OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources
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“Engage Me or Enrage Me” – Marc Prensky (2005)
“Never play a video game that’s trying to teach you something.” – Justin Peters (2007)
Terms like educational games, game-based gaming, and social impact games don’t sound too bad. But, Serious Games sounds awful! I [...]
Posted in educational gaming on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to INNOV8
IBM Academic Initiative
YouTube – Sneak Preview & Innov8 Demo
Innov8 – FAQs
WHAT?Innov8 is a FREE interactive 3D business simulator (Free of charge to universities at least. Registration required!), which takes participants through the entire lifecycle of discovery, collaboration, optimization, and innovation of a fictional company’s business processes. It is designed to teach the [...]
Posted in educational gaming, learning tools on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
URL: http://www.classtools.net/
“Create educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! ClassTools.net is a FREE website allowing teachers and students to create interactive Flash diagrams for learning and revising material.”
Learning while having fun Playing Games!This is an online educational game creator that you can have a [...]
Posted in educational gaming on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(Originally posted in ELC on the 5th May, 2004)
According to Dr. Dan Lim (Director of Instructional Technology Center, University of Minnesota), there are ?several notable web-based learning games initiatives like quia.com and thiagi.com are helping education and the training industry with some sustainable gaming delivery of online learning content. Quia.com has reached an impressive critical [...]
Posted in educational gaming on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to article (By Jason Stitt and Les Chappell)
“If the last video game you played was Pac-Man, you might have missed the advances that turned games into immersive training tools for skilled professionals and leaders.”
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors (Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire and James Paul Gee), among the top researchers in learning through game-playing, [...]
Posted in educational gaming on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to Game-based Learning paper (620 KB PDF file. By Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin-Madison)Funded by the e-Learning Consortium
“(Executive Summary) Interactive digital media, or video games, have emerged as a powerful new economic, cultural, and now educational force. Games are now a multi-billion dollar industry, and new conferences, journals, and research initiatives are all competing [...]
Posted in educational gaming on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to Virtual TraderVirtual Trader is UK’s largest and best Stockmarket simulation game. Experience the thrill of investing with no risk. It’s completely free to play. Virtual Trader is the most comprehensive Investment Simulation Game available, offering its users the opportunity to gain practical experience trading a wide range of investment vehicles, such as Stocks, [...]
Posted in Papers, educational gaming on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to article (Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century, By Joel Foreman)“Herein lies a moral about how videogames are influencing higher education. To learn more about videogames in academe, Joel Foreman sought out the insights of five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, [...]
Posted in educational gaming on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to view full article“Marc Prensky, CEO of games2train and author of Digital Game-Based Learning, contends that the use of digital games will grow, attributing this notion to a generational gap between existing employees and employees now or soon-to-be entering the workforce. While some refer to these new workers as the Net Generation or [...]
