Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s best-known writers of IF.
via Home : Inform.
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Posted by Teb Locke
Playfic lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world.
via Playfic.
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Annually for the past decade, the Horizon Report – Higher Education Edition – describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less
- Mobile Apps
- Tablet Computing
Time to adoption: Two to Three Years
- Game-Based Learning
- Learning Analytics
Time to adoption: Four to Five Years
- Gesture-Based Computing
- Internet of Things
[Source: New Media Consortium]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
MIT Sloan School of Management provides a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, industry notes, and management simulations, that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world.
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Designed by MIT Sloan School of Management Professor John Sterman to instruct the school’s MBAs about the challenges of sustainably managing common pool resources, this web-based simulation of the game can be played by an individual or in teams in a single session or over the course of a semester.
[Source: Today's Campus]
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The Center for Media Design (CMD) at Ball State University is a research and development facility focused on the creation, testing, and practical application of digital technologies for business, classroom, home, and community. These efforts are accomplished through the Digital Exchange Initiative funded by a $20 million Lilly Endowment Award.
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A new book by Bryan Alexander surveys the many ways of telling stories with digital technology, including blogging, gaming, social media, podcasts, and Web video.
Just ordered a copy from Amazon!
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Here’s how one Hope College (Holland, MI) professor has leveraged digital texts and social media to create learning games and simulations for his students — such as an online reenactment and multiplayer role-playing simulation that takes place during the American Civil War.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Academics discussing whether to take their virtual campuses out of Second Life in protest, after the company that runs the online environment announced the end of a generous education discount.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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…and almost half are under the age of 15!
[Source: ReadWriteWeb]
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