The How To E-D-U Your How-To guide for Higher education has just published a list of 50 educational games, including 13 aimed at college or adult students.
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The How To E-D-U Your How-To guide for Higher education has just published a list of 50 educational games, including 13 aimed at college or adult students. Try them out and let me know what you think of them. Natasha Boskic has just updated a comprehensive list of books and articles on educational games, simulations and virtual worlds. Go to: Books on virtual learning and games (annotated) and: Journal articles and reports on virtual worlds and games for learning Many thanks, Natasha, for sharing this tremendous resource on this topic. BCIT (2009) BCIT launches The CUBE: Centre for the use of 3D simulation technology taking teaching and learning to a new level Vancouver BC: BCIT, November 2 Here in Vancouver, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (a polytechnic anywhere else), is now using 3D simulation technology for aeronautical engineering and health education, with substantial investment ($1.35 [...] Wimba is offering a free online seminar on Simulations in Higher Education This session will demonstrate examples of simulations that use a mixture of web technologies, social networking and virtual worlds. Date: June 11 Time: 10:00 am EDT Place: Online – Sign-up Here If you can’t make the time, sign-up to get an email with a link to [...] Turkle, S. (2009) Simulation and Its Discontents Cambridge: MIT Press (launch: May 2009) From the publisher’s blurb: Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility…From both sides of a generational divide, there is anxiety that in simulation, something important is slipping away…Turkle’s examination of simulation [...] |
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