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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782937503321

Autore

Davidson Drew

Titolo

Second generation e-learning [[electronic resource] ] : serious games / / Drew Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004

ISBN

1-280-51429-9

9786610514298

1-84544-165-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (52 p.)

Collana

On the Horizon. No. 1 ; ; Vol. 12

Disciplina

371.35/8

Soggetti

Distance education

Internet in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abstracts & keywords; Editorial; Introduction: On the Horizon special issue; Why create a media and game center?; The four slates of educational experiences; Practical barriers in using educational computer games; Making visible: using simulation and game environments across disciplines; Visual literacy and learning: finding some online territories for the slow learner; Games/gaming/ simulation in a new media (literature) classroom; Cyborg dreams: from ergodics to electracy

Proposal for educational software development sites: an open source tool to create the learning software we needBook review

Sommario/riassunto

This special issue of On the Horizon focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. A facet of this issue is the interactive and collaborative method in which it was created. Instead of separated individual articles, the authors and editors have orchestrated the articles together, reading and writing as a whole so that the concepts across the articles resonate with each other. It is the intention that this special issue will serve as the basis of many more discussions across conference panels, online forums and interactive media that in