Thanks to Jennifer Kerwin for this guest post. Jennifer is presenting at LEEF on creating health education games for children. She is an Instructional Designer in the Learning Solutions department at JPL.
When I first started as a Management Development Trainer, a colleague and I had an ongoing debate about the need to be a [...]
Watch Jane McGonigal’s video. She’s a game designer, games researcher, and, in her own words, a “future forecaster”. She is the Director of Games Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. Jane researchers how the games people play today shape the real-world future. Her mission is to design games that will solve real-world [...]
According to mashable.com, USA Today reported that the Obama administration’s Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission has been working with Microsoft to make a computer game about managing the US federal budget and deficit. The game is only one small aspect of the commission’s broader objectives and ideas for dealing with the nation’s rising deficit and other fiscal [...]
Thanks to Andy Petroski for this guest post. Andy is a co-coordinator of LEEF and Director and Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies at Harrisburg University.
The learning field is often influenced by entertainment and communication technologies that can be repurposed from their original intent to impact learning solutions (e.g. video, the web, games, virtual worlds). The [...]
Three new high tech demonstrations have been added to LEEF including Virtusphere and MicrosoftSurface .
The Horizon Project is the product of a series of ongoing conversations and dialogues of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations from more than two dozen countries. The result is the publication of a report focused on the emerging technologies relevant to higher education based on [...]
In this series, we’re taking a look at how the generation (Boomers, Generation X or Generation Y) might impact the way an individual thinks about and engages in games and ways in which learning professionals can adjust the game and simulation to address the expectations of each generation. As we explore the generations keep in mind the characteristics are generalizations of the generation and not necessarily accurate for any one individual.
This article by Lydia Dishman posted on the Fast Company website demonstrates another invaluable use of avatars and serious games.
Lieutenant Rocco’s recently returned from deployment in Iraq and he’s having trouble acclimating. He sits near the edge of a sofa in his social worker’s office, still dressed in fatigues, and sporting a buzz cut. Even [...]
Derek Morrison discusses his views on the possibilities of technology in 2015. He uses the historic evolution of technology and its role in education to project where technology will go and what it will be used for in the future. But Morrison pauses to argue what technology in education should offer the learner. That is to say that while there may be [...]
The Society for Applied Learning Technology or SALT website recently posted a news release announcing that IBM is unveiling a new serious game that uses a multiplayer, sim-style game to address real-world challenges in urban settings.
Armonk, NY – 03 May 2010 – IBM today announced CityOne, a new “serious game” that can help customers, business [...]
