We are going to push Gaming for Learning Development to the max in an upcoming experiment. Here are the ingredients:
* Take several undergraduate students from Champlain College's Electronic Gaming & Interactive Development Program in Vermont and bring them to Orlando for Learning 2007.
* Give them an assignment to create a Learning Focused Game, defined by a group of companies at Learning 2007.
* Over the next 58 hours, in full view of 2,000 participants - with feedback every few hours - they will build an web based immersive learning game.
* This learning activity will then be reviewed, edited and released into Open Source for the entire global community to use.
We are very excited to look at this Rapid and Collaborative development. At key points, we will get electronic feedback from 2,000 people and input from hundreds of learning experts. Thanks to Ann DeMarle from Champlain for organizing this experiment and we look forward to working with Emily Benton, Wes Knee, Ben LaPointe, and Lauren Nishikawa as well as their faculty in Orlando on Oct 21st.
Here is the Video "Mission Possible" Game Development Charge to the Students:
