While cruising the web, I discovered this interesting blogsite, Educational Games Research, designed by John Rice, a current doc student in educational computing at North Texas who carries similar interests with specializing in educational video games. This blog analyzes different aspects of education and gaming with posts about; companies that incorporate communication support for online learning, effects of gaming and global economies, assessment of brain research on games and even spirituality!
http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/
My favorite aspect of this blog stems from the second post topic of video games and spiritual growth survey. I suggest trying it out as its a lot of fun and in addition it helps the another MA student in educational technology with his research. The interesting aspect of this survey centers on the factors of not just spiritual growth in games but also the effect of cognitive development into the design of the games and the ability for games to enhance one's own perceptual self awareness in the world. This survey combines the aspects of education and technology in a unique way that seeks to answer questions of how gaming and education will affect future populations and the manner in which instruction may be applied in society.
This website offers a comprehensive amount of information on online education, gaming research, distance education, the economy, the environment, and has well designed links for past information, related sites and top posts. This happens to be one of the better blogs I have seen and has given me plenty of ideas to spruce up my own blog once I get past these nagging sinus infections. Take a look and enjoy!
2 comments:
Very useful resource. I've saved the URL. Thanks, Ben!
Rice has another interesting article to assess higher order thinking in games, in which there is a rubric. You may feel interested.
Rice, J. (2007). Assessing higher order thinking in video games. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 15(1), 87-100.
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