Euan’s Blog

I was first introduced to Second Life in May 2006 at a seminar at the SRI (previously ka Stanford Research Institute).   The attending Valley folk were gushing about it. I was told that as well as an exciting and fulfilling virtual world, the educational possibilities were ‘limitless’.  The future of digital education and ‘games based’ learning […]

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For the sceptics that say games cannot be serious learning tools, look no further than Clive Thomson’s Wired article about Luis Von Ahn, inventor of the captcha and now intent on harnessing the brains and sensibilites of a global population and making them productive as they play.  
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_humancomp
The mans a genius.

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Earlier this month I attended a few of the sessions at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.  A couple of really good talks, a lot of very bland talks and some truly awful stuff.   (the worst chairperson I have ever had the misfortune to listen to at the games actually session)
Most of the key talks, discussions were transcribed live at http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/. 
One of […]

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In May 2006, I was invited to take part in a DTI Global Watch Mission to look at corporate e-learning in the US.  As well as getting the opportunity to quiz some of the leaders of corporate e-learning in the US, I had the opportunity to travel with some of the UK’s leading players in the field.  My brief was […]

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Over the last 4 and a half years I’ve been lucky enough to get to immerse myself in some of the coolest developments and technologies of digital learning, not an area I was particularly clued up about before I took on the job I do.  The great thing has been that during this time I and my colleagues at 3mrt have had the time and space […]

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