Please note that the date of this webinar has been changed from that previously advertised.
In this free lunchtime webinar organised by ALT with the support of the eLearning Network, Steve Harris and Scott Hewitt will take you through some key game mechanics and suggest how these can be used to meet the aims of serious games. This will include mechanics from video games as well as alternate reality games.
In the second part of the session Scott will take you through some of the current game development tools available to create your own serious games. He will also show you some examples of where game theory and gamification is being used to solve problems and to engage learners.
The Twitter hashtag for this webinar is #gswsg. If you have an enquiry please contact us.
We will notify you of arrangements approximately seven days prior to the webinar, giving you time to get your PC or Mac set up and tested, taking account of the guidance on the ALT web site at http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.
Our thanks are due to ALT sponsoring member Blackboard Collaborate for providing access to the collaboration platform Elluminate Live! to support the delivery of this webinar.
The webinar will start at 1230 UK time (BST), and will finish no later than 1400. BST is 1 hour ahead of GMT. Time zone information.
It will be facilitated by ALT's Maren Deepwell.
About the presenters
Steve Harris
Steve has 10 years experience in serious games and software development, and 10 years experience teaching the same subjects. Steve started his career developing serious games in the defence industry and has designed two game development degree’s at Universities in the UK.
Steve is currently a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge where he teaches game development and continues his interest in serious games through his PhD Research where he is investigating the use of gaming hardware such as the Microsoft Kinect camera to assist the visually impaired. Steve is also the co-founder of Seven Line Studios Ltd, a game development studio.
Scott Hewitt
Scott Hewitt has 15 years experience in e-learning and computer games. His work focuses on bringing together skills and techniques from computer game design into e-learning projects. He designed and was involved in setting up programmes with two university degree courses linking computer game design and e-learning, with one course being rewarded with an award nomination.
Scott has a user-friendly approach and aims to show people how everyone can take elements from games and add it to their own e-learning projects!
He is the founder of Real Projects, www.realprojects.co.uk, a creative e-learning business that is increasingly developing learning games for leading public and private organisations.