Euan’s Blog

I was asked by the Scottish Further Education Unit to write an article for their magazine Broadcast about games and assessment in colleges.  Unfortunately as I wrote,  it turned into an article about what the education establishment could do to get good educational games…..
You can download the article here
 or read it here (without the cool images)
I am never quite sure how much of […]

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Its been a few months but we’ve got round to releasing lots of new products and software including InQuzitor for kids to use at home.   What I find tough to work out is how do I get the message out there that some of the best games designers in the world (part of the original Grand […]

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I love on-line educa.  It is an eclectic mix of the sublime to the ridiculous, from the innovative to the truly truly dreadful.  I just chaired a session on Serious Online Games in the Workplace.  So you would think from the title that the speakers of which there were 8 (for 6 sessions 20 minutes each) would present […]

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Last week I attended the Handheld Learning Conference in London.   I attended a pre-conference seminar which turned out to be the most animated and interesting session.
Marc Prensky was presiding and he started by talking about how when trying to sell learning games ‘in the early days’  people argued that learning games were too trivial.    Prensky now agrees with these doubters ‘ […]

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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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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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