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"Online for-profits such as American Public University System and the University of Phoenix have for years strategically steered students toward e-textbooks in an attempt to shave costs and ensure a more reliable delivery method that, in the context of online education, might seem to make more sense."

I just like living in a world where this happens: "The startup which specializes in Arabic online multiplayer games..."

The chat forums associated with games could be mines of information for the right research project. I hope they rarely become newsworthy in this way.

Good point. Gaming discussion has grown into a wide field for all kinds of research. I'm waiting for "gaming made him do it" arguments to appear.

This is the only and best Diablo 3 dueling and tournament league online today, guaranteed.

"Atmosphir is a free video game for Mac, Windows, and Linux, where you can create your own 3D adventures to play and share online with your family and friends."

Audio with novelist Nicholson Baker, who describes learning about computer games and respecting their art. Check out which title he thinks is most novelistic. There's also a full article, but not online yet.

Third science game in a month. Check out the blog for a bit of controversy. It seems at least one advisor to the game is a proponent of "intelligent design", but I agree it makes sense for the game to focus on cell mechanics. Just because you control the cell, doesn't mean the game is making an argument for an omnipotent creator of all living things. Found it via an article in Kill Screen magazine "Back to School" (no online version)

It uses Zotero

how to add game elements to your online syllabus in wordpress

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are they digital and hence very difficult to preserve but they also are software systems that have significant hardware, peripheral, and network dependencies, which are difficult to collect and formally represent. This article reviews the literature related to videogame preservation. In addition to covering the traditional technology-related issues inherent in all digital preservation endeavors, this review also attempts to describe the complexities and relationships between the traditional acts of technology preservation, representation, and collection development. Future work should include the identification of important user groups, an examination of games' context of use, and the development of representational models to describe interaction of players with the game and the interactions between players playing the game.

"HabWorlds Beyond is a new type of online science course. What sets it apart from the current generation of online courses and MOOCs? Emphasizes learning by doing Students learn by doing as they create and destroy stars, hunt for planets, and search for signs of life."

Thinking about trying this out. Do you know anything more about it?

The pilot follows work undertaken by JISC Collections early in 2012, when a number of interactive educational software and games suppliers, as well as representatives of FE colleges, were interviewed to gauge the current extent and use of such software and online resources by the colleges.

Xenos-ISLE is an open-source language learning portal - an online universe where people can gather and practice using a second language in natural and authentic ways through game play. Students are free to roam the world, chat and communicate with those they meet along the way.

names mean stranger in Greek

Which is nice - it's neither the target language (English) nor the students' original tongue (Spanish). So it emphasizes strangeness equally.

A free internet game about football/soccer designed by Champlain College students at the Emergent Media Center with the UNFPA and Population Media Center