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I have been talking about this game for quite a while both online and off line. It was the first game that I bought for my iPad some six month ago. It is a traditional ‘Physics’ type game with a really user friendly interface. The aim of the game is to get the marble or other [...]

MSc- Digital Games Based Learning Both Malone papers provide excellent basic theories of Games Based Learning. Although written some thirty years ago, the principles remain the same for digital games today. This post is a summary of the mainpoints. What Makes Things Fun to Learn? Heuristics for Designing Instructional Computer Games Thomas…[Read more]

MSc- Digital Games Based Learning I thought I would use a post to list a few quotes from this week’s digital games based learning course readings. Hopefully they will be useful when I come to writing the synoptic paper Greenfield (1984) This paper is somewhat dated. However it summarises the early research of video games. Many [...]

As part of my MSc in eLearning at Edinburgh University I am currently studying a unit on digital games based learning. Part of the course requires me to write a weblog (over 12 weeks). My university weblog has not attracted many comments recently so I thought I would open it up and re post some of my thoughts [...]

I am now into the second semester of my MSc in eLearning . As I have mentioned before, I am writing a private weblog as part of the MSc assessment, so I thought it was about time i shared some of these thoughts here Throughout this semester  I have found myself becoming involved in a number of [...]

TeachMeet is entering its fifth year and the unconference for teachers, by teachers has helped hundreds – maybe thousands, in fact – to try out something new, alter the way they already teach and learn, join a community of innovative educators or completely transform their way of working. The hope was that the model would spread. It [...]