Top 100 Learning Game Resources

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.

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.

Comments ( 43 comments )

Zaid June 25, 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
kavin kumar .R June 25, 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
Katrina June 25, 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:)
Rene St-pierre June 26, 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/
Alexa June 27, 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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Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen July 10, 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
Jon Aleckson August 21, 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
Karl Kapp August 22, 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.
Randy Kulman August 28, 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.
Jeff Cobb September 3, 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
Francisco Tupy September 24, 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.
kshitij October 3, 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!
joseph January 30, 2010 at 3:59 pm

it is a nice site, especially for starters and a loving site for real gamers
John Rutherford April 7, 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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Josh Sheldon December 31, 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
Matthew Montebello May 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Wow … an excellent collection of useful material …
Gareth Jones May 3, 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.
games May 17, 2011 at 11:47 pm

Thanks for your research. I am always looking for sites like these.
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Antonio Salinas García July 27, 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)
Graham Stanley August 1, 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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gamification on mobile social applications October 18, 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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peggy sheehy July 22, 2012 at 11:39 pm

Delicious list! Scrumptious resource! Seems to be missing the Pièce de résistance: What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning & Literacy by James Paul Gee and Good Video Games +Good Learning: New Literacies & Digital Epistemologies both by James Paul Gee. Thank you for your most vital work!
Courseworks July 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm

It is a very informative bunch of eLearning games which will be very helpful in the studies of students. They will also play a very important role in developing the personality of students as a good and bright student.
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Doug Lapsley October 22, 2012 at 6:13 pm

You might also want to check out http://www.zondle.com – It’s a free website that allows teachers to create their own topics. Student then play their topics in any of the 40 or so zondle games. Teacher can then review progress. Here is an example game http://www.zondle.com/cdl.aspx?qp=650&a=934
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