The Acagamic

It is crys­tal ball time again. This time we are talk­ing about the future of edu­ca­tion. The claim: Game design­ers = Teachers. The pre­sen­ter: Tim Hart. An instruc­tional or learn­ing tech­nol­o­gist at the University of Maine in the USA. His pre­sen­ta­tion (with the title prob­a­bly some­what inspired by Steven Johnson’s book “Everything Good is Bad [...]

Today, on the third of December, we tackle a seri­ous (and very good) pre­sen­ta­tion from James Burke, a Ph.D. stu­dent from the University of Ulster, who researches games for seri­ous pur­poses (so-called Serious Games) such as stroke reha­bil­i­ta­tion. Games can be ideal moti­va­tors for patients to engage in upper limb post-stroke reha­bil­i­ta­tion exer­cises. For this pur­pose, Burke [...]