[Digital_Divide] call for papers: Video Games and Learning

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This is a call for papers to be published in a special issue on video
games and learning. Clark Aldrich, James Gee, Marc Prensky, Seymour Papert
and many others have argued that the designers of video game technologies
are blazing the path that instructional technology will eventually follow.
Imagine 3D learning worlds (in stand-alone and multi-student online
versions) programmed to identify students' skill levels and learning
styles, build accelerated learning paths, bring the students into a "flow"
state, and monitor and continuously assess their performance. As video
games become ever more advanced and video game development and research
programs make their way into the nation's universities, we must think
seriously about this vision. How close are we to realizing the dream? What
advanced research projects are underway? What social or market dynamics
will enable the positive synthesis of video game technology and education?
These are some of the questions well worth tryin!
 g to answer in a special issue of Innovate.

Professor Joel Foreman, George Mason University, is the guest editor for
this issue, scheduled for June/July publication. Please follow our
submission guidelines at
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit and send your
manuscript to him at jforeman at gmu.edu Submissions deadline is March 15,
2005.

Professor Foreman will also lead an Innovate-Live Forum on video games and
learning, which will be initiated with an Innovate-Live webcast on
February 4, 2004, at 2:00 pm. Details of how you can participate in this
forum and webcast are available at our Innovate-Live portal hosted by our
partner, ULiveandLearn, at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/

Best.

Jim
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James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info
Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
UNC-Chapel Hill
http://horizon.unc.edu


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