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Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. If you are contemplating beginning - it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas.

millee: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies - project to help children in developing countries learn literacies

The EcoMUVE project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a recently funded project of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The goal of EcoMUVE is to develop a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based ecosystems science curriculum for middle school, and to conduct feasibility studies on the practicality, integration, and acceptance of the MUVE-based curriculum for student engagement and learning in classroom settings. MUVEs enable multiple participants to access virtual worlds simultaneously, interacting with other students and with computer-based agents to facilitate collaborative learning activities of various types.

video games: the learning revolution

Video Games as Learning Tools

learning games network

Geothentic: solve real problems with Google maps and learn geography

Second Life Games: Bardo the game (Learning to avoid rebirth in Second Life - teaching the Buddhist idea of "no soul" yet also reincarnation in a recreation of the Tibetan Book of The Dead

virtual heroes: simulations for learning, serious games, and virtual worlds for healthcare, federal systems, and commercial markets.

uses of virtual worlds for teaching medicine, health, and related topics

Not Just Fun & Games: engaging students in learning information literacy and other content using games

The Education Arcade: MIT's lab to move learning games fwd

Developing new technologies that expand the range of what people can design, create, and learn

With the WildLab iPhone application and associated inquiry-based curriculum, students learn the basics of scientific fieldwork, while using other STEM-related skills. Through observations, questions, and analysis, students come to know the important role they can play in gathering data about birds and their habitat, using mobile technology as a scientific tool. Most importantly, they experience the thrill of scientific discovery!