Game Based Learning

GALA aims to shape the scientific community and build a European Virtual Research Centre aimed at gathering, integrating, harmonizing and coordinating research on SGs and disseminating knowledge, best practices and tools as a reference point at an international level. The other key focuses of the project are: the support to deployment in the actual educational and training settings; the fostering of innovation and knowledge transfer through research-business dialogue; the development high-quality didactics on SG by promoting and supporting courses at Master and PhD level.

Game to Learn supports learning in the classroom and is reaching out to educators across the globe for anecdotal accounts of successful uses for games in education.

Guest post By Marianne Malmstrom: insight regarding students experiences using minecraft in education.

20 blogs dedicated to game based learning.

This wiki provides information and lesson ideas pertaining to the use of Minecraft in the learning environment.

From Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001)

Gaming in education is a really big deal, and a very fun way to get students more involved and interested in education. Board games, video games, even active outdoor games all have an important place in education, and these videos share more about their role in learning. Check out #49.

This blog post speaks to a variety of benefits and ways to introduce video games in the English Classroom. Several games are discusses as well as gamification principals.

One of the many tremendous resources offered by Jerry Blumgarten including sites to articles on games in learning, sites including learning games, etc.

A collection of videos covering a variety of areas within the realm of game based learning.

Worth having this list of blogs at the ready if you are interested in Games in Learning!

G.A.M.E. is a network of educators interested in games in learning. The YouTube channel is home for their live broadcasts and videos.

I had forgotten about this TEDtalk; fits with Jane McGonigal's work

ARG Academy: A course for educators to learn about and build ARGs

This open course is designed for educators who want to learn more games, simulations and game-like environments for education. It is designed for all levels of participation. We are using the matrix from Dr. Lisa Dawley's Social Network Knowledge Construction as the model for the course.

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia to deliver a story that may be altered by participants' ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real-time and evolves according to participants' responses.

"Think of it as an alternate world Cold War era spy adventure, if that kind of thing included stuff like blood sacrifices packed with dark beings."- Andrea Phillips, Balance of Powers Kickstarter campaign video. Before Adrian Hon and Naomi Alderman took to Kickstarter to fund the mobile app Zombies, Run, there was Balance of Powers.

Gamers Advancing Meaningful Education (G.A.M.E) is an online community of educators who game.