Serious Games Zone Schedule Now Posted!

At the Serious Games Zone, you’ll see and play some of the latest and most instructionally-sound serious games. But it’s not all fun and games! It’s designed to help you discover how game design and simulation strategies can have a seriously positive impact on learning. Explore tools that are currently available, look at strategies for adoption and implementation, discuss case studies, and find resources to help you.

For the full Serious Games Zone schedule of events click here.

The Serious Games Zone is hosted by Alicia Sanchez, Defense Acquisition University

Leveraging decades of research in Education and Simulations, Alicia’s focus lies in the appropriate use of emerging technologies that continuously redefine the potential of games-based learning options. Alicia earned her doctorate at the University of Central Florida and subsequently served as a Research Scientist at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center prior to being named Defense Acquisition University’s Serious Games Czar.

UK Experts Say Game Education Could Help Lacking Tech Curriculum

Information and communication technology (ICT) education is failing UK students and the country's technology industry as a whole, but a curriculum that includes video game-related subjects could help resolve the matter, experts say.

A report from the UK's Council for Industry and Higher Education stated that the current curriculum is not sufficiently preparing today's students for jobs in creative, digital and IT industries, according to a report in the London Evening Standard.

Read the full article HERE.

Mozilla: Now is the time for browser-based games

Computer games have played an important role in advancing the state of the art for computing, and now Mozilla hopes to draw upon gaming to advance browser application development.

The Firefox backer launched the new Mozilla Labs Gaming projectTuesday with the goal of encouraging programmers to use a host of new browser and Web technologies.

"Modern Open Web technologies introduced a complete stack of technologies such as Open Video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geolocation, and fast JavaScript engines which make it possible to build complex (and not so complex) games on the Web. With these technologies being delivered through modern browsers today, the time is ripe for pushing the platform," said Pascal Finette, the Mozilla Labs "catalyst" whose job is to "make things happen."

As part of the effort, Mozilla also announced the Game_On 2010 browser-game contest that will start in September.

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