Game Based Learning 2010

Simon is a senior lecturer in the Portsmouth Centre for Enterprise at the University of Portsmouth. Professional interestes include enterprise education, games for education (particularly serious games / Alternate Reality Games) and the use of technology to enhance teaching. In his spare time Simon is a bee keeper, a rock star and the worlds foremost expert on building clay ovens!

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ARGs for building knowledge and experience.

Key concepts from Alternate Reality Games(ARGs) were utilised in the creation of two discipline-specific courses at Higher Education undergraduate level. This paper briefly outlines the approaches used - in Enterprise Studies at the University of Portsmouth; and Historical Studies at the University of Leicester - and compares the extent to which each encouraged knowledge acquisition and experiential learning within the context of a specific subject discipline, and with differential levels of ARG conceptualisation.