What’s New in Game-based Learning – July 2021

Hiya pals! Time to jam out to our newest roundup of the month’s hottest academic gaming, severe video games, and AR/VR for studying information! 

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We’ve beforehand lined Sport Builder Storage, an excellent cool new recreation creation software for the Nintendo Swap that locations a robust emphasis on coding. Now that GBG has launched, Nintendo is teaming up with the Nationwide Summer time Studying Affiliation (NSLA) and Ladies Make Video games to convey GBG to their communities. The NSLA is a nationwide, non-profit group targeted on investing in summer time studying to assist youngsters return to high school within the fall able to succeed, whereas Ladies Make Video games hosts a sequence of summer time camps, workshops and recreation jams designed to encourage the following technology of designers, creators and engineers. Sport Builder Storage might be a part of Ladies Make Video games’ fashionable summer time camps, and Nintendo would be the title sponsor for STEM Day throughout the NSLA’s Nationwide Summer time Studying Week, amongst different upcoming actions – all to assist younger individuals learn to make video games by means of the software program’s extremely interactive classes. [READ MORE]

Stage Ex’s newest academic cell app High Derm is aimed toward serving to dermatologists keep up-to-date on the newest dermatology advances, even to the purpose of providing persevering with medical schooling credit. Greater than 140 dermatologists collaborated on the app with recreation trade designers, builders and artists, and is full of fastidiously designed, photorealistic representations of pores and skin circumstances. The app is free to obtain from the Apple App Retailer or Google Play and options completely different ranges of play and video games throughout a variety of frequent and unusual dermatological problems and ailments. [READ MORE]

Between the rise of NFTs and informal billionaire tweets about meme-based cryptocurrency, blockchain has been within the information loads recently. Certainly, there are few phrases which can be as broadly used and poorly understood as “blockchain.” To assist broaden the understanding of this extremely impactful know-how, Murtuza Jadliwala, assistant professor within the Division of Pc Science on the College of Texas – San Antonio, has cultivated an progressive table-top recreation referred to as CryptoMiner to teach youthful college students on how blockchains perform and the way they permit cryptocurrency purposes. [READ MORE]

College of Leeds lately revealed a brand new report with enter from a spread of teachers, technologists and well being professionals, aimed toward advancing the usage of immersive applied sciences in healthcare schooling. Entitled “Immersive applied sciences in healthcare coaching and schooling: Three ideas for progress,” the report argues for larger standardization of use immersive applied sciences in healthcare coaching and schooling. As contributor Professor David Peebles explains, “It’s about creating a set of ideas and tips for the usage of immersive know-how in medical remedy. Immersive know-how is turning into more and more fashionable and, because the know-how is advancing, it’s turning into clear that there’s nice potential to make coaching extra accessible and efficient.” [READ MORE]

Oculus lately introduced a number of accessibility enhancements to their Oculus Quest, highlighting the inclusion of a brand new Accessibility tab within the Oculus’s Settings menu. Customers can now leverage easy accessibility options like altering textual content measurement, in addition to two extra advanced options – Colour Correction and Increase View. Colour Correction modifies colours for customers with coloration blindness, making like colours simpler to distinguish. Increase View (a characteristic discovered in lots of VR video games) permits customers to expertise VR from a “standing” vantage level even when seated. [READ MORE]


Miss final month’s entry? Take a look at our highlighted articles from June 2021!