Today at UW-Madison, David Gagnon shared the state of the field and production here at UW-Madison. Working under Kurt Squire and having connections to the DoIT/Engage designers the idea is to set up a clearinghouse for mobile production using the ARIS engine which is very close to release.

He also did some amazing demo's of the engine. Though the affordances of the mobile experiences looks similar to much that is already out there - but the kicker is the accessibility of production to non-techn… Continue

Wednesday 24th June 2009 7:15 am
RT "Taking It Mobile" From Spotlight:Blogging the Field of Digital Media and Learning

In conjunction with the 2009 Games, Learning, and Society conference, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation hosted a gathering of experts June 10 to explore the challenges and possibilities of using mobile devices to deliver educational content.

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Scot Osterweil is the creative director of The Education Arcade and currently directs a number of games about math, literacy, science, history, and language learning, including Labyrinth and iCue. Before coming to MIT, Scot was the Senior Designer at TERC, where he designed Zoombinis Island Odyssey, winner of the 2003 Bologna New Media Prize, and the latest game in the Zoombinis line of products (Riverdeep/TLC). Scot is the creator of the Zoombinis, and with Chris Hancock he co-designed the mult… Continue

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