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.
Books and articles on games, simulations and virtual worlds
January 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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.
3D simulation technology for technical training
November 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 million) from the private sector.
I see this as a particularly important step forward in developing high quality educational simulations. I just hope that BCIT can find research money to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of this initiative, as this is a development with much wider significance, particularly if there are possibilities to transfer design principles to other applications.
In the meantime, congratulations to Chris Golding, Mark Bullen and the others in BCIT’s Learning and Teaching Centre for launching this exciting initiative with their partners, Lockheed Martin and NGrain Corporation.
Online seminar on simulations in higher education
May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 the recording.
Presenter: Dr Liz Falconer, Manager, E-learning Development Unit & Manuel Frutos-Perez, Deputy Manager, E-learning Development Unit, University of the West of England
‘This session will demonstrate examples of simulations that use a mixture of web technologies, social networking and virtual worlds. In particular we will discuss in detail a simulation that enables groups of law students to work as partners in simulated law practices in a virtual town that supports a range of casework.
We will also showcase an accident investigation simulation built in the virtual world Second Life where groups of students can experience an accident scenario, investigate it, design safe systems of work to deal with the case and work collaboratively on accident analysis and prevention.’
Register Here:
http://www.horizonwimba.com/company/events/1617-she—simulations-in-higher-education
Simulation and its Discontents
March 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporary simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology.
I will possibly do a review of this book when I have read it.
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