European Conference on Games Based Learning

Conference Programme

The programme for the conference is given below.

You can download a .pdf file of the entire programme here, a copy of the abstract booklet here and a copy of the joining instructions here.

Wednesday 24 October
18:30	Pre-conference registration and welcome meeting in the Glynhill Hotel until 19:30

Thursday 25 October
09:00	Registration and coffee
10:00	Room: Barony 2 Welcome from the conference chair: Professor Thomas Connolly, University of Paisley, UK
10:05	Welcome from the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Paisley: Professor Seamus McDaid
10:15	Keynote address: Professor Bob Stone - Serious Games: A Human-Centred Approach to Delivering Meaningful Tools for Learning
11:10	Conference splits into streams
	Room: Executive Lounge Stream A - Designing Games Chair	Room: Executive Room Stream B - GBL for business training Chair	Rome: Moray Stream C - GBL in schools Chair: Elias Pimenidis
11:15	Designing Computer Games for Adult Learners Whitton Nicola, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK with Alison Crerar, Napier University, Scotland, UK	Improving Negotiation Skills Through an Online Business Game Greco Marco and Gianluca Murgia, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy	Teaching Climate Change In Year 8! Che Pee Naim, Peter Blanchfield and Colin Higgins, The University of Nottingham, UK
11:45	Designing Multiplayers Educational Games With Online Generic Shells Sauvé Louise, Télé-université / SAVIE, Québec, Canada	Team Play – Using Computer Games to Engage Learners in Teamworking. Maxwell Colin, Adam Smith College, Kirkcaldy, UK	Teacher Acceptance of Game Based Learning in K-12: The Case of River City Schifter Catherine and Diane Jass Ketelhut, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
12:15	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*
13:30	Room: Barony 2 Keynote address: Dr Kurt Squire - The Design of Video Games-Based Learning Systems
14:25	Conference splits into streams
	Room: Executive Lounge Stream A - Developing and using Games Chair: Ellen Brox	Room: Executive Room Stream B - Simulations Chair: Mark McMahon	Room: Moray Stream C - GBL for educational institutions Chair: Nicola Whitton
14:30	The use of Online Games in Business Education: The IE Business School Experience Olazar Idoia, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid, Spain	How Decision-Making Styles Affect the Gaming-as-Learning Experience Lainema Timo, Turku School of Economics and Kristian Kiili, Technical University of Tampere, Pori Unit, Finland	Learning History by Playing a Mobile City Game Huizenga Jantina, Geert Ten Dam and Wilfried Admiraal, University of Amsterdam with Sanne Akkerman University of Utrecht: IVLOS Institute of Education, The Netherlands
15:00	Reflective Thinking in Games: Triggers and Constraints Kiili Kristian and Harri Ketamo, Tampere University of Technology, and Timo Lainema, Turku School of Economics, Finland	Game Based Learning Beyond Simulations González-Calero Pedro A, Marco A. Gómez-Martín and Pedro Pablo, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain	Developing a Computer Game for University Library Induction Pimenidis Elias, University of East London, UK
15:30	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*
16:00	Room: Barony 2 Keynote address: Dr Constance Steinkuehler - Virtual Worlds, Learning and the new Cosmopolitan
17:00	Close of conference day
18:30	Coach leaves the hotel for Mar Hall
19:00	Conference Banquet at Mar Hall

Friday 26 October
	Room: Executive Lounge Stream A - Engaging learners Chair: Neil Anderson	Room: Executive Room Stream B - Evaluations using GBL Chair:	Room: Moray Stream C - "Serious" games Chair: Colin Price
09:30	Casual Games Provide Stress Relief for Female Gamers in Taiwan Hsu YuPing, Shu-Zen College of Medicine of Management, Kaohsiung with Kuang-Chen Hsu, Soho, and Chang-Ming Ko, Logistics Service Integration, Taiwan	Evaluating the Effect of Personality on the Design of Educational Games Felicia Patrick and Ian Pitt, University College Cork, Ireland	Learning Support in Multi-User Virtual Environments Livingstone Daniel, University of Paisley, UK
10:00	A Competence Jigsaw Puzzle – Making a Language Learning Game in a European Project With Diverse Competence and Diverging Standings Brox Ellen, Gunn Evertsen and Audun Heggelund, Norut, Tromsø, Norway	Profitable Experiences From a Business Game Ali Mohammad and Jonathan Hill, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont St.Giles, UK	Using Role-play Virtual Environments to Learn Software Design Jimenez-Diaz Guillermo, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero and Mercedes Gomez-Albarran, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
10:30	Leisure Time and Personal Development Through Video Games: A Case Study Under Development in Barcelona Aranda Juarez Daniel and Jordi Sánchez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain	Does Games-based Learning, Based on a Constructivist Pedagogy, Enhance the Learning Experience and Outcomes for the Student Compared with a Traditional Didactic Pedagogy? Healey Ashley and Thomas Connolly University of Paisley, Scotland	Political Education via Video Games? Bevc Tobias, Lehrstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft, Technische Universität München, Germany
11:00	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*
11:30	Room: Barony 2 Keynote: TPLD - Growing Pains: A Debrief for the Serious Games Industry Jim Piggot and Matt Seeney
12:30	*Lunch*	*Lunch*	*Lunch*
	Room: Executive Lounge Stream A - Engaging learners Chair: Tobias Bevc	Room: Executive Room Stream B - Evaluations using GBL Chair -	Room: Moray Stream C - "Serious" games Chair: Wilfried Admiraal
13:30	Can Serious Games Engage the Disengaged? Brown David, Nick Shopland, Steven Battersby, James Lewis and Lindsay Evett, Nottingham Trent University UK	A Survey of Students' Motivations for Playing Computer Games: A Comparative Analysis. Connolly Thomas, Liz Boyle and Thomas Hainey, University of Paisley, Scotland	Games as Learning Scenarios: Are you Serious? Carron Thibault and Jean-Charles Marty, Universite de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac Cedex, and Jean-Mathias Heraud and Laure France, ESC Chambery, France
14:00	Carving out a new Approach to Learning Bates Matthew, David Brown, Wayne Cranton and James Lewis, Nottingham Trent University, UK	Technology Enhanced Language Learning in Early Childhood - Experiences of an Advanced Training Curriculum for Kindergarten Teachers Katzlinger Elisabeth, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria	A Document Oriented Model for the Design of Serious Games McMahon Mark, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
14:30	Digital Games as a Learning Tool for Children with Cognitive Disabilities: Literature Review and some Preliminary Methodological and Experimental Results Saridaki Maria, Constantinos Mourlas, Dimitris Gouscos and Michael Meimaris, University of Athens, Greece	A Formal Approach to Represent, Implement and Assess Learning Targets in Computer Games Hildmann Hanno and Daniel Livingstone, University of Paisley, Scotland	Using a Commercial Game Engine to Produce Physics Educational Materials Price Colin, University of Worcester, UK
15:00	From Popular Culture to Traditional Culture: Learning Through Video Games Anderson Neil, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia	Breaking the Narrative: Individualized Competence Assessment in Educational Games Kickmeier-Rust Michael, Dietrich Albert, Cord Hockemeyer and Thomas Augustin, University of Graz, Austria	Organising Learning Environments for Games-Based Instruction: Practical Considerations Ige Temisan, University of Badan, Ibadan, Nigeria
15:30	Room: Barony 2 Closing session Summary of issues raised during the conference Led by the programme chair: Dr Mark Stansfield
16:00	*Close of Conference*

Last updated 8 November 2007