When writing the whitepaper about Casual games, I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. While doing so, I documented a few of the better ones. I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. If you are contemplating beginning – it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas.
This list isn’t categorized in any way, and it’ll stay that way until I figure out a good way to tag and qualify them in some way. Most often such a list brings up debate about the quality of content linked to. In putting this list together, I worked with Tony Karrer and his eLearning Learning site extensively to match links that are popular based on social signals, specifically in the Games and Simulation categories.
- It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2008
- Building Better Learning Games- Learning Visions, April 9, 2009
- Gadgets, games and gizmos for learning- Clive on Learning, January 29, 2008
- What Makes a Learning Game?
- Serious Games Blog
- mLearn08: MiLK: students building mobile learning games in higher education by Debra Polson- Ignatia Webs, November 12, 2008
- Marc Prensky – Twitch Speed, June 17, 2009
- Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009
- Learning in Immersive worlds: A review of game-based learning
- Immerse Yourself in Another Language- Kapp Notes, June 3, 2008
- Resources: Games and Gaming in Education- Don’t Waste Your Time
- Which name is better – Serious Games or Educational Simulations or…?- The Learning Circuits Blog, October 13, 2007
- More Educational Games- Kapp Notes, August 7, 2008
- The Art of Making Video Games- Kapp Notes, June 10, 2008
- Linking Commercial Games with Defense
- Colleges Play Games- Kapp Notes, May 27, 2008
- Casual Games get Serious, June 17, 2009
- Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Games Let You Do That- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2007
- Educause
- Good Video Games and Good Learning
- Digital Games: A Motivational Perspective
- Why Are Video Games Good For Learning?
- Video games and the future of learning
- moving learning games forward
- 36 Learning Games to Change the World
- Game Development Research
- Yes You CAN Create E-learning Games- Bozarthzone , June 22, 2007
- Apple Learning Games
- And You Thought Mechanical Engineering was Boring- Kapp Notes, August 14, 2008
- Adopting Digital Game-based Learning: Why and How- Upside Learning Blog, March 26, 2009
- ZaidLearn: 75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!, December 11, 2008
- A Theory of Fun- Clive on Learning, August 16, 2007
- The treatment matrix- Clive on Learning, August 5, 2008
- PDF: Serious games: online games for learning (PDF), June 17, 2009
- Where games, sims and 3D worlds meet- Clive on Learning, June 24, 2007
- Caspian’s ILS taxonomy- Clive on Learning, November 17, 2008
- 24 Questions about computer games and education- The Learning Circuits Blog, August 8, 2005
- Casual and Serious Digital Games for Learning – Some Considerations- Upside Learning Blog, April 17, 2009
- Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Learning Algebra in a Game- Kapp Notes, November 19, 2006
- Games and the Gamer Generation: Keynote- Kapp Notes, August 10, 2007
- Games and Learner Assessment- Kapp Notes, May 30, 2008
- World Bank: Serious Games and Urban Planning, October 30, 2006
- Top 10 Educational Games of the 1980s- Kapp Notes, September 20, 2008
- Game Studies 0102: Cultural framing of computer/video games. By Kurt Squire, June 17, 2009
- It’s Monday, Are You Stressed? Relax with a Unique Video Game- Kapp Notes, October 29, 2007
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: From Serious Games to Serious Gaming (Part Four): Labyrinth, November 14, 2007
- Save Planet Helios from ecological devastation!-3D Game by IBM- Kapp Notes, August 29, 2008
- Serious Games: Slideshow of examples from an event at Harvard Business School, December 13, 2007
- Email Games, June 17, 2009
- Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: MMORPG in ICT Education- Kapp Notes, January 16, 2007
- GDC’s Serious Games Summit- Upside Learning Blog, April 3, 2009
- Rapid authoring for immersive games and sims- Clive on Learning, January 26, 2009
- Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: ESL in SL- Kapp Notes, February 13, 2007
- TCC09: Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life, April 14, 2009
- Why Most Off the Shelf Commerical Games Will Not Work in Education? And What Is The Alternative?, June 17, 2009
- Textra Games, June 17, 2009
- Predictions for 2009, December 30, 2008
- Training Games, June 12, 2007
- Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked, June 17, 2009
- Serious Games, June 17, 2009
- Social Sites, Design, Informal Learning, & Brain Games, May 4, 2009
- Groupboard, May 7, 2008
- Army is to Spend $50 Million in Edutainment for Troops, November 25, 2008
- Playing with Our Heads – Why Video Games are Making our Kids Smarter-and more obedient, June 17, 2009
- Fourteen Forms of Fun, June 17, 2009
I intend to continue to add links to these categories (eLearning Games & eLearning Simulations) over time. I’m open to suggestions: please comment here with links & descriptions and I’ll definitely take a look at the sites suggested and consider inclusion.
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