Games For Learning Institute (G4LI)
There will be a new Games for Learning Institute (G4LI) in New York University. The institute is a new joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and a consortium of universities, including: Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), Dartmouth College, Parsons The New School for Design, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, [...]
Book Chapter on Game Modding
I have finally sent off the book chapter I co-wrote with JaeHwan Byun for the Gibson-Baek’s book. Book Title: Digital Simulations for Improving Education Editors: David Gibson & Young Kyun Baek Chapter 18 - Making Video Game By Modification (Game Modding): Lesson Learned Apart from the regular “fix this”, “change that”, I am actually very pleased with the [...]
Delta3D: OS Game Engine
Well, it was at best a random encounter. It started with a listserv posting on members’ opinion of the Top 3 serious games, and Jim Brazell (UTAustin) said, amongst a list of games/software: Delta 3D – because to me the most serious game simulation is building games. This is the path to human development for [...]
Playing to Learn
The Murphy Winter Report (2005/2006) ran an article about Kathleen Hansen and Nora Paul of University of Minnesota using NWN for Journalism. (I have known about someone using NWN for journalism for quite sometime now, but it keep slipping my mind as to who the researchers are… Now I won’t forget.) Original article: http://sjmc.umn.edu/mreporter/winter2005/neverwinter.html (Excerpt… [...]
Serious Games Challenge
After two months of planning and several weeks of crazy coding/scripting, my research team has finally put together a game for the 2nd Annual Serious Games Challenge and Showcase at I/ITSEC. I must say I learned a lot. Before, I was able to put together a story, and even build the set. But when it [...]
Neverwinter Nights 2 “Research”
I have finally come across the first report about folks “using Neverwinter Nights 2 for learning and/or research.” I am pretty sure the folks at Heriot-Watt University are somehow “inspired” by the success at West Nottinghamshire — since both Judith Good and Judy Robertson also hailed from the United Kingdom. But whatever the things they [...]
Digital game-based learning in Europe
On June 2, 2005, the 4th International Symposium for Information Design was held at the Stuttgart Media University. It’s theme? Digital Game Based Learning. The full proceeding of the symposium can be downloaded here [link to PDF]. “Digital games are a significant element in the digital media and information society. They influence the development of media [...]
Making the News
Kathryn Jaehnig did a write up for CILR’s Information Trails research team today. The article was printed in today’s Southern Illinoisan newspaper. Headline: Computer Games May Help with Class Work ID: 19394578.doc Author: Kathryn Jaehnig Approx. number of words: 687 CARBONDALE – Some day, in the not-so-distant future in a school not far [...]
CGames 2007, Louisville, KY
10th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games (Call For Paper) 25th-28th July 2007. Galt House Hotel, Louisville, KY. The International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games organised by The University of Wolverhampton, England, is one of the leading research conferences devoted to the advancement [...]
NWN Modding: West Notts College, UK
West Nottinghamshire College at Mansfield, UK has been modding NWN since 2005. Those of us who followed the Bioware’s Wednesday newsletter would have read about their educational NWN project at one time or another. The project has also been reported in the news, here’s one write-up, and here’s another. On Jan 12, 2007, BBC News [...]
Assessment and Digital Game-Based Learning
Although the following quotes are from an older article: Game Plan, from Technology and Learning (Vol 26, No. 3), some of the problems faced in implementing games in education remain relevant… (sadly, this means nothing much has changed since 2005). The full article can be found here: Techlearning (October 15, 2005) Educators are on the [...]