Abhijit Kadle | June 24th, 2009 | Game Based Learning, Learning Technology
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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
- Marc Prensky – Digital Game-Based Learning
- Gadgets, games and gizmos for learning- Clive on Learning, January 29, 2008
- How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century
- 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
- Using computer games in education- ThirdForce Blog, January 30, 2009
- Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009
- Learning in Immersive worlds: A review of game-based learning
- Army War College – digital game resources
- 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
- Interactive learning with game-based design principles
- More Educational Games- Kapp Notes, August 7, 2008
- Examples from TWITCHSPEED.COM Digital Game-Based Learning, June 17, 2009
- 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
- Aspects of Game- Based Learning
- Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Games Let You Do That- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2007
- Educause
- Digital Game Based Learning
- Good Video Games and Good Learning
- Digital Games: A Motivational Perspective
- The use of computer and video games for learning
- For a Better World: Digital Game and the Social Change Sector
- Games for Change – Toolkit
- Lego Games
- Additional Resources for Digital Game-Based Learning
- Why Are Video Games Good For Learning?
- Teaching Educational Games Resources
- using the technology of today, in the classroom today
- Simulation Games – A Learning Tool
- Video games and the future of learning
- moving learning games forward
- 36 Learning Games to Change the World
- Game Development Research
- BBC School Games
- 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
- Games e-Learners Play, April 29, 2009
- 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
- The Top 5 Platforms for Creating Educational Video Games « Educational Games Research, June 17, 2009
- 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
- Clark Aldrich’s Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: costs for simulation, December 11, 2008
- Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Learning Algebra in a Game- Kapp Notes, November 19, 2006
- Latest Issue of The Escapist Focuses on War Games and Gaming, September 23, 2008
- 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
- Trends with Games, December 23, 2008
- Learning Circuits – ASTD’s Online Magazine Covering E-Learning
- Learning in Video Games
- Hong Kong Digital Game Based Learning Association
- 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
- What is a Game? The Art of Computer Game Design, June 17, 2009
- 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
- Shootorials: Kongregate Teaches You How To Make Your Own Games, October 22, 2008
- Predictions for 2009, December 30, 2008
- Simulations – Are They Games (PDF), June 17, 2009
- Serious Games Enhancing The Rehabilitation Environment, June 17, 2009
- Training Games, June 12, 2007
- Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked, June 17, 2009
- Computer Games and the Military: Two Views, June 17, 2009
- Serious Games, June 17, 2009
- Social Sites, Design, Informal Learning, & Brain Games, May 4, 2009
- Groupboard, May 7, 2008
- Why Do People Play Games? – The Art of Computer Game Design, June 17, 2009
- Video games are good for you!, February 13, 2009
- 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
- Federal Consortium on Virtual Worlds, November 19, 2007
- Examples of Games Based Learning, June 17, 2009
- Interesting Web Sites for Game-Based Training, e-Learning and Education:, 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.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:15 am
What a wonderful collection of EduGame related links! Surely, I know where to start looking for great links on edugames and simulations
Also, thanks for including my edugames collection.
Finally and importantly, THANKS for sharing your hard work to the world
Have a great week discovering and learning!
Warm Regards,
Zaid
June 25th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Hello there ,i am impressed by your listings.but stiil somthing bothers me , iwould like more of a courseto do .So if you found any website which discusses basics on learning and programming gaming..
I am eagerly waiting .
thankyou for sharing your amazing listing.
have a nice day
June 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I love this article. Thanks for taking the time to research these games. I am always looking for different eLearning resources to share with others and will definitely direct people to your blog:)
June 26th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Very good resources made available to the community of researchers and practicians in this field. Great work!
I would like to suggest my own doctoral research on the subject (educational video game design) that can be viewed at the following adress:
http://www.clikmedia.ca/CM/
June 27th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
There’s a new EU overview of games in education recently published by European Schoolnet, where I work, through the Games in Schools project.
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July 10th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Just went through some of the links that I didn’t know, and read the white paper. Quite good.
We did quite a lot of stuff – some of it you can see at http://www.seriousgames.dk. We have done a thing similar to Sun in 2D for one of the biggest financial corporations in Denmark (Nykredit) that was a run-a-way hit. It was onboard training so people more quickly got into the organisation and understood how it worked.
Also, take a look at my blog where a lot of the research I have done can be found – http://www.egenfeldt.eu/blog
August 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
This is an excellent resource, thank you. Take a look at our website http://www.gamescanteach.com for reviews that focus on the educational value of the many games distributed as “Casual Games” on sites like http://www.krongregate.com
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
This is a fantastic list of resources about game-based learning and a lot of really good information. Thanks for posting this to the web and for letting people know about your researc. And thanks for including some of my postings on your list.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for the great compilation. This will help some of our undergraduate students who are helping us to find games that practice thinking and executive functioning skills. You might be interested in our site at learningworksforkids.com We are relaunching in Oct/Nov 2009 with a number of tools for selecting popular games that teach skills to kids. Let me know if we can help you in any way.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Abhijit – What an excellent list! I made sure to put it into the latest edition of the Learning Monitor. Thanks so much for including Mission to Learn! – Jeff
September 24th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Great list, really a great job. I hope in the future be part of this list is perhaps the only blog of the Latin countries that disclose the Serious Games, and applications of pop culture in teaching, disseminating the cutting edge trends.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Great list! Thanks…:) Good place to start for people with interest in Game based learning…
Just started to look into the upside blog recently.. some articles are very informative!
January 30th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
it is a nice site, especially for starters and a loving site for real gamers
April 7th, 2010 at 5:17 am
An excellent list. Worth adding to it is http://www.what2learn.com – free access to thousands of interactive learning games for use across the curriculum. Free teacher accounts make it really easy for teachers to track student progress through the existing games or to create their own activities, games and tests. A great way to reduce marking and improve student motivation and performance.
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December 31st, 2010 at 8:39 am
Wow, great list – I could spend hours digging from here. Thanks for this and the other blog posts I come back to.
I’d add two white papers from The Education Arcade: http://educationarcade.org/node/370
And you might also want to check out (if you haven’t already) a non-profit that colleagues of mine have put together, the Learning Games Network: http://www.learninggamesnetwork.org/index.php?/site/game-developers
May 2nd, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Wow … an excellent collection of useful material …
May 3rd, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Learnalot (www.learnalot.com) provides game-based learning resources for maths for students aged 11-16.
Your resources are excellent – the best skills-based learning resources for maths I’ve seen.
- Melanie Blount, NGfL-Cymru
The look of the site has immediately caught the interest of pupils who I know love to spend time on X-Box/PlayStation at home. Harnessing an existing interest for a learning purpose is probably the Mecca of education. I would love to know if you might have plans for a KS2 version at some stage?
- Steph Ladbrooke, teacher
Great website for revision especially for me and I’m in year 11. Amazing website!
- Alex, student
Sign up for a free trial at http://www.learnalot.com/free.
May 17th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Thanks for your research. I am always looking for sites like these.
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July 27th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
At http://www.vedoque.com we publish all the educational games we make. We have more than 60 games in Spanish and now we are translating them to English (12 games in English)
August 1st, 2011 at 1:19 am
Thanks for this list. I’d like to suggest a blog that I co-author about language learning and games - http://www.digitalplay.info/blog – we post practical ideas for teachers as well as commentary and interviews, etc. We also have a methodology book coming out for teachers (also called Digital Play) in Spetember, published by Delta Publishing, in the UK
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October 18th, 2011 at 11:48 am
I remember playing cheesy elearning games whereby I’ve to clear stages by using my knowledge in Science. But what many games are lacking is that the relevance is too subtle. The storyline doesn’t link, my previous knowledge doesn’t affect how the next level progresses. But it is nice to see with gamification and how people really sit down to discuss about mechanics in place, elearning softwares are gearing towards giving players/users an experience instead of just info-feed .
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