This is a special interest group for Swiss educational technology professionals who are engaged, or simply interested, in the use of games in higher education.
By this we understand - The design and development of instructional games - The use of commercial games for learning - Using game design as a framework activity for learning
The SIG is open to practitioners and researchers - actually, being Swiss is also not mandatory…
Please, add your initials for better references!
Create e network of people that enjoy (and have fun!) in using games and videogames in education, and that want to do better and better in that.
- Videogames and games: not only digital products
- COTS games, custom games
- Console games, internet games, minigames, board games, mobile games
- Use of games / game design for learning
- Types of contributions
– Tools & products (GameMaker; EGGS, waiter game)
– Case studies (CityTreasure)
– Literature (Miller's book)
– Industry data and reports (…)
– Implementing games in teaching (CH)
- REPOSITORY of instructional games
- REPOSITORY on game-based learning research
- Blog for news (or feed collector)
- Interview with Henry Jenkins:
http://www.blog.initiatived21.de/?p=2241
- (Research) Projects from the Educational Engineering Lab at the UZH:
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ee/research/game_based_learning/projects/
http://www.pm-game.ch/
- Conference Conference and computer science: “Serious Games” http://inka.fhtw-berlin.de/kui/home
This SIG is managed by Luca Botturi of the eLab at the Università della Svizzera italiana. If you are interested, google me and drop me an email 
) (that's anti-spam nonsense…)
