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cogdog on What Are We Playing At
What it means to integrate games into the curriculum and why we should
Richard Van Eck
University of North Dakota
Presentation and Game Analysis Packet available
http://idt.und.edu/
A good session with a sound approach to Game-Based Learning, look for resources from the presentation. Good discussion form the audience. Bottom line- games are interesting, have great potential, yet we have a huge educational struggle to soundly integrate without trying to produce at the level of commercial games- recommendation is to integrate rather than create.