Euan’s Blog

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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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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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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