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Lessons Learned from Teaching Game Design

Lessons Learned from Teaching Game Design

Lessons Learned from Teaching Game Design I’ve spent the past six months teaching game design at the Cologne Game Lab, a German university dedicated to the study of digital games. In this blog post, I want to share what I’ve learned during the process and condense it down into five practical rules … [Read more...]

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ESA Offering 3 College Scholarships To Women, Minority Students Seeking Game-Related Degrees or Eports Participation

ESA Offering 3 College Scholarships To Women, Minority Students Seeking Game-Related Degrees or Eports Participation This year, the ESA Foundation will offer three collegiate scholarships to women or minority students hoping to earn video game-related degrees or participating in collegiate … [Read more...]

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Pioneering California University Launches New Virtual Reality Pilot to Train Aspiring Nurses

Pioneering California University Launches New Virtual Reality Pilot to Train Aspiring Nurses

Pioneering California University Launches New Virtual Reality Pilot to Train Aspiring Nurses National University uses federal grant to offer innovative, immersive community health care simulation experience LA JOLLA, CALIF. (February 3, 2021) — National University, a nonprofit institution … [Read more...]

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Dallas College Awarded $10 Million Grant to Support High-Tech Career Training

Dallas College Awarded $10 Million Grant to Support High-Tech Career Training

Dallas College Awarded $10 Million Grant to Support High-Tech Career Training The college was one of only five higher education institutions in the country selected to participate in a $145 million program Dallas College has been awarded $10 million in workforce development funds by the U.S. … [Read more...]

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Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy Facilitates Donation of Learning Games

Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy Facilitates Donation of Learning Games

Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy Facilitates Donation of Learning Games The School of Education and Social Policy’s Office of Community Education Partnerships helped facilitate the donation of approximately 9,200 Osmo sampler kits to children and educators in Evanston … [Read more...]

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University Boils Cybersecurity Concepts Down to Learning Game

University Boils Cybersecurity Concepts Down to Learning Game

University Boils Cybersecurity Concepts Down to Learning Game The University of Texas at San Antonio is working with elementary school educators to nurture an early interest in cybersecurity, starting with a simple card game. The game, launched in August 2020, is part of the university’s K-12 … [Read more...]

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UAE’s HBMSU Launches Gamification In Higher Education For Students To Deepen Engagement Levels In The Learning Process

UAE’s HBMSU Launches Gamification In Higher Education For Students To Deepen Engagement Levels In The Learning Process

UAE’s HBMSU launches gamification in higher education for students to deepen engagement levels in the learning process EduGame integrates games into learning as a smart and effective higher education tool Smart learning environments can provide effective learning experiences that allow students to … [Read more...]

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Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2021

Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2021

Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2021 If you’re looking for software and services to augment online and blended instruction this year, start here.   As the pandemic continues bringing change to higher education through the academic year, faculty, instructional designers and … [Read more...]

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How Big Is The Simulation Learning Market Today and How Fast It Is Growing

How Big Is The Simulation Learning Market Today and How Fast It Is Growing

How Big Is The Simulation Learning Market Today How Fast It Is Growing |Cae Healthcare, Pearson Education, Mentice, Gaumard Scientific, Realityworks, Infopro Learning, Mcgraw-Hill Education   Simulations copy a genuine marvel and are utilized in the field of preparing and instruction to … [Read more...]

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Gaming Careers Driving Next Generation of Creativity

Gaming Careers Driving Next Generation of Creativity

Gaming careers driving next generation of creativity Newcastle College provide insight into the creative roles that are helping the gaming industry to grow, and the career opportunities that potential students may not have known existed In 2016, the global video game market was valued at £113 … [Read more...]

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College Consensus Publishes Aggregate Ranking of the Best Online Master’s in Game Design for 2021

College Consensus Publishes Aggregate Ranking of the Best Online Master’s in Game Design for 2021

College Consensus Publishes Aggregate Ranking of the Best Online Master's in Game Design for 2021 HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., - College Consensus, a unique college ratings website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews, has published its first-ever ranking of the Best Online Master's in … [Read more...]

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Interactive Game Created By Lithuanian Team Won World Summit Awards

Interactive Game Created By Lithuanian Team Won World Summit Awards

Interactive game created by Lithuanian team won World Summit Awards An interactive educational game “Flight across the Atlantic” featuring the legendary flight of Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas was announced as one of the winners in the global digital innovation competition … [Read more...]

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“Getting Serious About Games: A Study of Work and Play through Information Systems,”

“Getting Serious About Games: A Study of Work and Play through Information Systems,”

"Getting Serious About Games: A Study of Work and Play through Information Systems," Jeff Mullins Presented AIS Doctoral Dissertation Award The Association for Information Systems presented Jeff Mullins, assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of … [Read more...]

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Global Simulation Learning in Higher Education Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends 2020 – 2026

Global Simulation Learning in Higher Education Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends 2020 – 2026

Global Simulation Learning in Higher Education Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends 2020 – 2026 Forio, InfoPro Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson Education The Global Simulation Learning in Higher Education Market surveying report we’ve got distributed may be a definite report for any … [Read more...]

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Why We Need Centers for Educational Innovation, Evaluation and Research

Why We Need Centers for Educational Innovation, Evaluation and Research

Why We Need Centers for Educational Innovation, Evaluation and Research It’s time to replace teaching centers with centers for educational innovation, evaluation and research. Virtually every university now has a teaching center or a faculty development center to improve the quality of teaching. … [Read more...]

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RIT professors release new Islamic law module for ‘Lost & Found’ religious laws game series

RIT professors release new Islamic law module for ‘Lost & Found’ religious laws game series

RIT professors release new Islamic law module for ‘Lost & Found’ religious laws game series ‘Lost & Found: New Harvest’ also added to collection at The Strong National Museum of Play A new module of the Lost & Found religious legal systems game series, created by an interdisciplinary … [Read more...]

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Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees

Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees

Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees There are more than 70 million forcibly displaced refugees worldwide. A team of Wichita State University researchers is working on making education more accessible to refugee learners. The Education for All project is … [Read more...]

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Research Participants for VR Study! 

Research Participants for VR Study! 

  Research Participants for VR Study!  Do you like VR Desktop Gaming? Do you like nature?   Are you tired of working all day on your PC without a break?  Participate in the Work Breaks, Health, and Performance – Online Study   STUDY00001980 approved at the University of Central Florida … [Read more...]

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Global Higher Education Game-based Learning Market Expected to reach highest CAGR in forecast period

Global Higher Education Game-based Learning Market Expected to reach highest CAGR in forecast period McGraw-Hill Education, PlayGen, Toolwire, Totem Learning, Lumos Labs, This versatile composition of research derivatives pertaining to diverse concurrent developments in the global Higher Education … [Read more...]

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How to Build the Dark Star: a Serious Collaborative Game

How to Build the Dark Star: a Serious Collaborative Game

How to Build the Dark Star: a Serious Collaborative Game Games are learning experiences. They can help people to better understand soft skills and grow by providing space to safely experiment. Corrado (Dex) De Sanctis will facilitate the game-playing session "How we built the Dark Star" at Agile … [Read more...]

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