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Research Shows Detective Game Can Change Behavior

Andy, Joe and I seldom tout our own work. However our team at Web Courseworks has been developing educational games for the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin since 2004. In my post on my Managing eLearning Blog I interview Dr. Schafer about his research on our middle school ATOD prevention curriculum call Its Up 2U.

Submitted by: Jon Aleckson on: 10/18/2009 - 09:20

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2009 IndieCade Finalists

Joystiq has a great set of screenshots and summaries of the finalists for the 2009 IndieCade Festival. Each one of these is a wonderful example of how a game can be so much more than a little diversion. Most of the finalists are games with something important to say or teach.

Submitted by: Joe Rheaume on: 10/05/2009 - 10:25

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Casual Game Market sees 20% Growth

Gridlock Buster 26000 plays in four weeks!

Joe Rheaume of Chronotron fame has been doing a fabulous job writing reviews on this site of casual games and the educational principles they are built on. As the primary sponsor of this non-profit web site I am ecstatic about all the excitement surrounding the casual game market. Web Courseworks’ casual game Gridlock Buster, developed for the University of Minnesota’s ITS Institute, has already s

Submitted by: Jon Aleckson on: 07/14/2009 - 14:35

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Science Magazine's Video on Game-Based Learning

Science Magazine Covers GBL

Science Magazine has posted a video introduction to their special "Education and Technology" issue.

I couldn't agree more about the need to have real data telling educators (and developers) what does and does not work, and that we need a better distribution model for educational games.

However, It's always a little disingenuous to talk about World of Warcraft and The Sims when trying to make the point that video games can reach millions of players. WoW and The Sims are outliers - the most successful games out there.

Submitted by: Joe Rheaume on: 01/19/2009 - 14:21

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Workshop at ASTD 2009

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Jan. 2, 2009
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‘Chronotron’ creator will present at top eLearning conference
Free interactivity calculator to be launched as part of game design workshop

MADISON, Wis. — The creator of the Web-based video game “Chronotron” will present at a pre-conference workshop at American Society of Training and Development’s TechKnowledge 2009, a premier conference for designers developers and leaders of eLearning implementations.

Joe Rheaume will appear as the creator of “Chronotron” and as a representative of Web Courseworks, the eLearning production company where he works as lead programmer.

Submitted by: Jon Aleckson on: 01/15/2009 - 12:22

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Announcing GamesCanTeach.com!

Welcome to GamesCanTeach! This blog is a non-commercial project of Web Courseworks. Our goal is to promote game-based learning by bridging the gap between academic research and practice, enabling game-based learning practitioners, academics, developers, teachers, trainers, and everyone else who cares about game-based learning to:

Keep up on the best ideas being generated by the casual Flash game development community,
Engage with the insights of academic research into game-based learning,
Bring those two realms together in their work, and,
Have fun doing it.

Submitted by: Andy Hicken on: 01/14/2009 - 14:30

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