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. The research results show the potential impact of educational games delivered over the Internet into the classroom. Here are some features of the program:

• Detective game genre with multiple locations and characters
• Ability to learn via a written conversation with game characters
• Activities that force literacy activities such as keeping an electronic journal or writing a letter to the editor
• Teacher-guided, including a comprehensive teacher’s guide that allows for flexibility