IMAGINE Increasing Mainstreaming of Games In Learning Policies

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IMAGINEIncreasing Mainstreaming of Games In
Learning Policies

• Carol Usher
• MDR Partners

With the support of the Lifelong Learning
Programme of the European Union
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• About IMAGINE

• IMAGINE aims to show conclusively that games can
  succeed because they use sound pedagogical
  approaches in the development of valuable skills
  such as
• strategic thinking
• planning communication
• application of numbers
• negotiating skills
• group decision-making
• data-handling
• eye-hand coordination

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• Aims and Objectives

• The 'core' aims and objectives of the project are
  to
• Draw together and valorise the results of
  previous Game Based Learning initiatives and
  projects across the school, adult and vocational
  learning. sectors.
• Use this evidence to influence policy makers'
  perceptions and actions to support a marked
  increase in piloting and mainstreaming of GBL.
• Have a significant impact on validating new
  learning paradigms and strategic thinking on
  curriculum reform.

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• Project Partners

• There are 6 Partners in the Project
• MDR Partners - UK
• Cross Czech Czech Republic
• European Schoolnet (EUN) - Europe
• FH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Sciences -
  Austria
• Süleyman Demirel University - Turkey
• University of Ljubljana - Slovenia

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• IMAGINE Website

• Resources and results will be available on the
  IMAGINE website

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• Case Studies

• Examples of good practice case studies spread
  across three education levels.
• For the school education sector (Comenius)
• For the adult/lifelong learning sector
  (Grundtvig)
• For the vocational learning sector (Leonardo)
• A selection of representatives from the leading
  case study projects will be invited to attend
  the sectoral roundtable meetingsand the Final
  Conference.

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• Games Directory

• The Games Directory will provide an extensive
  list of GBL products and services available
  throughout Europe.
• Features
• games categories
• fully searchable
• each game to be linked to an associated forum
  topic
• facility to rate games from 1 to 5 and to add a
  comment to support the rating
• sorting by rating, published date and most viewed

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• Final Report

• The result of desk based research, this report
  identifies Game Based Learning projects within
  the European community and provides a
  description of good practice case studies spread
  across all levels of education.
• Compiled by Maja and Paul Pivec
• FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences

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• Recommendations

• IMAGINE will produce a series of recommendations
  to policy makers on the use of GBL.
• The recommendations will cover multiple
  dimensions of the policy making issues concerning
  the introduction of games in education including
  
• education systems
• individual institutions
• the uses of technology
• economic and financial issues
• cultural and linguistic issues.
• Translated versions of the Recommendations will
  be available.

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• Visit Us!

• We look forward to your visit to IMAGINE
• Thinking outside the box