Meet the leaders in Game Education from European Universities and Game Education Schools at the inaugural Game Education Summit Europe.

Ken S. McAllister, University of Arizona
Judd Ethan Ruggill, Arizona State University
Co-Directors, The Learning Games Initiative

I think a lot of ‘im. He thinks a lot of me. And..uh..there ain’t a thing that he wouldn’t do for me. There’s not a thing I wouldn’t do for him. That’s the way we go through life, doing nothin’ for each other.

—Ralph Stanley, Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop

Photo courtesy of thegoldguys.blogspot.com

Game educators are an unruly (albeit fun and interesting) bunch. They hail from diverse disciplines, deploy disparate pedagogies, and prize different parts of the medium with which they work. Get a room full of them together and ask how and what they teach and you’ll be capsized by a wave of unique answers (a heterogeneity that mirrors the complexity and adaptability of the game medium itself).

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GES 2009 Keynote Stream – Click Here

by Drew Davidson

Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

In the late summer of 2008, ETC Press went live with a public beta, launching with 2 titles and the goal to release around 4 or so a year. As of this writing, there are around 6 projects in process for publication in 2009 and 2010. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the story and process of how and why ETC Press was started. I helped get it going, and am currently serving as the editor, so I’m going to share my perspective on the inspirations and ideas that have led to ETC Press.

ETC Press is a publishing imprint with a twist. We publish books, but we’re also interested in the participatory future of content creation across multiple media. It is an academic, open source, multimedia, publishing imprint affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and in partnership with Lulu.com. Read the rest of this entry »