Thursday, July 24, 2008

Serious Game - Virtual Incident Management Training

The CATT Lab is working with the I-95 Corridor Coalition and Forterra Systems Inc. to create an intensive training program that uses three-dimensional, multi-player computer gaming simulation technology and distance-based learning technologies to test, validate, certify, and reinforce the dissemination of best incident management practices across the Coalition region.

See more at http://www.cattlab.umd.edu/index.php?page=research&a=00028

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

MOE Education Software

Educational Technology Division (ETD) in MOE collaborates with teachers in the development of Interactive Resources (IRs) for teaching and learning in schools.

Feel free to browse through the list @http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edsoftware/ir/

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Free Education Software - GCompris

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.
  • computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
  • algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
  • science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ...
  • geography: place the country on the map
  • games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
  • reading: reading practice
  • other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, ...

Check it out now @ http://gcompris.net/-en-

Edu Games on Linux's KDE

Excerpted from http://edu.kde.org/

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults, you can freely use our software, copy it, modify it to your needs and enjoy learning.

The primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.

Read more on the following url, http://edu.kde.org/windows/index.php

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Welcome to the Game Development for Education and Training's Social Corner

Fellow game development mates and enthusiasts, a very warm welcome to our GDET's social corner.

In here, we share our findings and resources and discuss the nitty gritty issues and details on the development of edutainment software.

We leverage on this new state-of the art, cool and powerful Adobe Flash CS3 and identify this as our native platform for edutainment development.

We appreciate constructive yet creative and innovative feedbacks, ideas and findings.

Last but not least, shall we start the ball rolling...