OECD-CERI Expert Meeting on Videogames and Education

ENLACES (MINEDUC Chile) -OECD Expert Meeting on Videogames and Education
29-31 October, 2007, Santiago de Chile, Chile

This expert meeting, sponsored by the Chilean Ministry of Education and Enlaces will be devoted entirely to videogames and education. Videogames play an increasingly important role in young people’s lives and there is some evidence showing that they are becoming the preferred entertainment activity for youth in many OECD countries. What do we know about their effects? Can education systems learn something of practical value from videogame designers?

Chilean website: Seminario video juegos y educación

• Draft agenda

Papers and presentations

• Video games and Education, Background paper by Magdalena Claro

The effects of playing videogames: what do designers want?

• The effects of playing videogames: what do designers want? by Fernando Castillo, Electronic Arts, US
• Perceptions of Player in Game Design, by Olli Sotamaa, University of Tampere, Finland
• Gameplay and Game Mechanics Design: A Key to Quality in Videogames, by Carlo Fabricatore, Computer Scientist and Game Designer

The effects of playing videogames: interdisciplinary perspectives

• The Influence of Video Games on Youth: Implications for Learning in the New Millennium, by Karen E. Dill, Lenoir-Rhyne College

The effects of playing videogames:do we learn anything by playing?

• Digital games and learning gains, by John Dowell, University College, London
• Present state of videogames and learning games - use and effects, by Takashi Sakamoto, JAPET, Japan
• Learning About Videogames: Implication for Learning from Videogames, Jose P. Zagal, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

The uses of videogames in formal education settings

• Games, Learning, Collaboration and Cognitive Divide, by Miguel Nussbaum, Pontificia Universidad Católica

Serious games and epistemic games

• Epistemic games to improve professional skills and values, David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US 

The industry and the future of video games: exploring the potential for cooperation in education

• Skills acquisition and knowledge appropriation through computer videogames, Presentation by Patrice Chazerand, Interactive Software Federation of Europe
• Teachers, Computers, Games and Designers, by Ernest W. Adams, Adams Consulting Services, UK