Below is a slideshow giving access to links to interesting literature on games-based learning, and an introduction to the literature review on games in schools, written by Maja and Paul Pivec, in the framework of the study on this topic. The link to the full literature review is also provided.
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This meeting brought together the national coordinators from 5 of the study's focus countries (Austria, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain), to discuss the state of progress with regards the different components of the study, in each country. The meeting allowed for fruitful peer learning, from the presentations given on different national contexts, as well as those regarding concrete examples of the use of games in schools in Denmark and France.
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Adventure games, role plays, arcade, strategy games, simulations, driving games, puzzles, brain gym … We hear more and more about computer games and they are getting more and more sophisticated, but what is their place in school? Are they useful or dangerous? Opinions among teachers seem to be divided with some enthusiastic teachers using them effectively, some sceptical and some hostile. What is your opinion?
Online survey in English, French, German, Spanish, Danish and Estonian:
Games in school survey
Enquete sur les jeux video
Umfrage zu Spielen in Schulen
Encuesta sobre los juegos en los centros educativos
Mängud kasutamine koolides
Undersøgelse af spil i skoler
Downloadable survey as a Word file for return by email to gis@eun.org:
Danish
Spanish
Estonian
English
Italian
Lithuanian
German
French
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European Schoolnet is undertaking a major study sponsored by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe on the use of games in schools in Europe: video games, computer games, online games that run on consoles, computers, handhelds or mobile phones.
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The interactive software industry, which includes PC and video games, reference and educational works on CD-ROM, is the European content industry's fastest growing sector with a turnover of Euro 6.1 billion in 2005, to be compared to a Euro 22.5 billion world market. It is estimated that, in 2006, the European market will reach Euro 7.25 billion. As a matter of comparison, Interactive Software weighs already as much as the EU's film video market, and significantly more than its box office market.
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European Schoolnet (EUN) is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 31 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. EUN provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology.
