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Top 100 Learning Game Resources

Game Based Learning, Learning Technology | 4 MIN

Top 100 Learning Game Resources

Written by Abhijit Kadle

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.

Comments

Sara Bell December 21, 2020

That’s indeed a new concept,
Very interesting read!
Thanks for sharing the various aspects of it.
Keep writing and sharing such informative pieces!
All three best.
Have a great well ahead.
whatsapp December 18, 2019

It is a very informative bunch of eLearning games which will be very helpful in the studies of students. thank you for sharing here.
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