Update on educational video games, March 2010

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this

John Rice (2010). New 3D Learning Book by Karl Kapp. Educational Games Research: Research and discussion concerning instructional video games. February 8, 2010.

If you are interested in using 3D environment for teaching and learning, you may take a look at a book recommended by Rice, Learning in 3D: Adding a [...]

Further news on games

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Doh, J. (2010). Centian is looking forward to playing with humans again. ARGNet, Alternate Reality Gaming Network, February 14, 2010.

Similar to the previously announced EVOKE, this ARG plunges right into 2.0 technologies and spreads on all fronts, starting with information notes posted on twitter, inviting players to ning community and [...]

More news on educational games - and conferences

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this:

Amazon.com has published a list of Bestsellers in Video Games for 2009.

Jamie Madigan published an interesting article on her blog, “Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft”,  about psychological effects of games, using World of Warcraft as an example. Her whole blog is an attempt to understand why we [...]

Reports and articles on e-portfolios for learning

This section of the web site is managed by:

Lourdes Guàrdia
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
E-mail: lguardia@uoc.edu

Reports

Callan, V. (2009) How organisations are using e-learning to support national training initiatives Canberra: Australian Flexible Learning Network

This project, funded by  the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, has investigated how organisations are using e-learning in innovative [...]

Blogs on virtual worlds and games

Managed by Natasha Boskic

The ludologist (Jesper Juul’s blog)

Alliance Virtual Library

Mimi Ito

Henry Jenkins

NMC

HASTAC

Two recent topics on this blog:

Metaverses & scholarly collaboration (Anaventura, September 2, 2008)

and Participatory learning (Rheingold, H. August 24, 2008)

Whitton, N. (2009) Gaming innovations of the decade playthinklearn, December 31

playthinklearn. The end of the year is always a time for summarizing and [...]