learning objects

Teaching with games: a call for simulation colleagues

http://www.hope.edu/academic/communication/faculty/spielvogel.htm A request for colleagues to work on a gaming and teaching project in the liberal arts:Christian Spielvogel, an Associate...

Teaching with games: a call for historical simulation colleagues

http://www.hope.edu/academic/communication/faculty/spielvogel.htm A request for colleagues to work on a gaming and teaching project in the liberal arts:Christian Spielvogel, an Associate...

Peter Suber gives open access talk at Harvard

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/berkman-peter-suber-on-the-future-of-open-access/ Peter Suber, philosophy professor from a liberal arts campus and open access advocate, gave an overview of...

An educational game experiment: the ELI ARG

http://connect.educause.edu/page/content_organic_tab/ELIARGWebcast/48177 An experiment in computer gaming was mounted last month, as the ELI conference hosted an alternate reality game (ARG). Now an...

Mobile device learning game: Mad City Mystery

http://lgl.gameslearningsociety.org/games.php#madCity Mad City Mystery is a teaching game which uses handheld devices to support a story. Players rely on smartphones to gather and share information...

Economic crisis means more open academic content: Lev Gonic

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3632/lev-gonick-how-technology-will-reshape-academe-after-the-economic-crisis One side effect on academia of the economic crisis could be a boom in free, open...

Conference debate: are "Virtual Worlds are the Second Life for Online Learning"?

http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=214 Session notes for a featured session at the ITC eLearning conference, a debate on: are "Virtual Worlds are the Second Life for Online Learning"?...

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts launches

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/ A Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts recently launched. This project, based in the University of California, Los Angeles' Center for Medieval and...

Literary journal opens up archive to Web

http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/02/08/archives-opened/ Thirty years of the Virginia Quarterly Review are now open to the browsing public. Much of the content is free. (via MetaFilter)

EU: computer games are good for kids, and played by adults

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51A60H20090211 Computer games are not harmful to children, according to a new European Union study. "Videogames are in most cases not dangerous...