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The Digital Agenda for Europe aims at the overall objective of having everyone connected and empowered, which poses special challenges towards disadvantaged parts of the population, to be included. In this respect, research shows that the digital games industry is expected to grow in the future. Developing a Digital Games industry can contribute offering a [...]
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General editors: Sara de Freitas, University of Coventry, UK Paul Maharg, Northumbria University, UK Brief: Games and simulations have had a new lease of life in the digital revolution. There are remarkable examples of fascinating games that are also tools for learning complex knowledge, and engaging simulations that are used for pleasure and work-related training [...]
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Call for Papers Journal of Universal Computer Science Special Issue on Technology for learning across physical and virtual spaces Introduction Nowadays education does not happen exclusively face-to-face, in the physical space. Neither does it happen exclusively through online tools in the virtual space, like Virtual Learning Environments, blogs or wikis. There is a continuous transfer [...]
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This is a first call for papers for the 6th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL-2012) being held at The River Lee Hotel, Cork, Ireland on the 4-5 October 2012. This call is open until 16th of March 2012. Further details can be found at: http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2012/ecgbl12-call-papers.htm Over the last ten years, the way in [...]
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In 2012, the Foundations of Digital Games conference (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) will include a workshop on ”Foundations of Digital Game-Based Learning” The workshop site is http://fdgbl.fdg2012.org/, and includes this abstract: ________________________________________________________ The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and experienced game designers to focus on the foundational, fundamental constructs of digital game-based [...]
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Serious games (SGs) and technology-enhanced learning (TEL) tools are becoming ever more important for education and training. However, their effective application demands appropriate metrics, tools, and techniques for measuring elements such as learning outcomes, engagement, or gameplay performance. Devices like stereo cameras, eye trackers, galvanic skin response sensors, and neural impulse actuators (among others), now [...]
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