2^nd European Conference on Games Based Learning
The Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
16-17 October 2008

Logo of the The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the host institute

Conference Co-Chairs:    Jordi Sánchez Navarro and Daniel Aranda, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Programme Co-Chairs:    Thomas Connolly and Mark Stansfield, University of the West of Scotland, UK

Keynote Speakers:          Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark, “Beyond Edutainment: The educational potential of computer games”

                                       Ben Sawyer, Co-Founder, Digitalmill, Portland, Maine, USA, title to be confirmed

The European Conference on Games-Based Learning (ECCBL 2008) invites researchers, academics and professionals from games and education to come together to listen, discuss and present their research, points of views and knowledge.

This is the 2nd year of the conference and it will be hosted by The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona and held in the Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona. The city is renowned as one of the most important cultural and administrative centres in Spain. The Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia) is an online, on-the-Web university, a pioneer both for its innovative pedagogical model and for the quality of its learning processes. The UOC's educational model uses information and communications technologies intensively, based on a virtual environment that stresses communication and relationships between individuals.

The facilities of the Telecommunications, Computer Science, Education and Information and Communication studies are located in the 22@ district of the city, which has become over recent years a knowledge and business cluster at the new city’s core.

The conference will address elements of both theory and practice of all aspects of Games-Based Learning, and offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants involved in the field to exchange ideas.  he programme for the event will include an extensive range of peer-reviewed papers, including keynote presentations from leaders in the field.

We hope you find the conference a great experience and we warmly encourage you to join us at ECGBL 2008!

Jordi Sánchez-Navarro and Daniel Aranda
Conference Co-Chairs

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Important dates

Registration news

Earlybird registrations are available until 7 August 2008. Please read the earlybird condition on the registration page.
Special reduced rates are available for students and supervisors attending together.
Special reduced rates are offered for group bookings. See the registration page for details.

Publication opportunity

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Learning. The latest issue of the journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, is available to read online.

Blogs
This blogroll links to blogs on games based learning.

Conference Status

The review process is now underway and we hope to publish a preliminary programme soon.

Note to Authors: Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee only allows an author to present one paper. Therefore if multiple papers are accepted for presentation different co-authors need to present each paper. Author registration must be completed by 11 September 2008.

Purchase previous conference proceedings. The proceedings for this conference are listed in the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings), the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP) and the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings).

Jordi Sánchez Navarro


Daniel Aranda


Thomas Connolly


Mark Stansfield


Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen


Ben Sawyer




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