1. Shall We Play A
Game?
Game Based Learning
Opportunities for
Instructors

2. PLN
Personal Learning
Network

3. MOOC
Massive Open Online
Course

10. Good MOOC, Bad MOOC
 Venture capitalists who have poured at least $20-million into the
20-person Coursera storefront must be impatient for these
revenue streams to get settled. So far they’re considering the
following:
 a) Charging for certification and testing.
 b) Vending of tutorial services, translations, facilitation of
small-group discussion and peer learning, etc.
 c) Direct tuition for courses or clusters of courses in relation
to certification, standard distance-ed practice, just with the
new midscale Coursera brand.
 Harvard and MIT, for instance are trying to have their brand cake
and dilute it too by branding their Edx courses as the product of
“Harvardx” and “MITx.”
 d) Miscellaneous revenue sources, like advertising and
employment-service revenue from job seekers and potential
employers.

14. Social Network
Knowledge Construction
 Level 1 – Identify the Network
 Level 2 – Lurking
 Level 3 – Contributing
 Level 4 – Creating
 Level 5 – Leading

15. Some Numbers
 48,683 visitors
 86,862 page views
 283 threaded discussions
 301 registered participants

16. Games MOOC
Listed in the US Department of Education’s
Connected Educators Project’s Community
Directory

17. YouTube
Over 30 videos of live educational
presentations and discussions were created
during the Games MOOC.
The videos have collectively had 3,003 views.
We have 81 people who have subscribed to
the YouTube channel.

18. Asynchronous LMS
LMS –like site
http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com/

19. Live Events Online
 Google Hangout on Air as a quick overview each
Monday Morning
 Tweetchat each Wednesday evening
 Thursday livestreamed discussion or panel of
guests through Google Hangout on Air and also
through Second Life.

20. Tweetchat
 Wednesday night games based learning
tweetchat
 7 pm MT
 One hour
 Hashtag #gamemooc

21. M stands for Modest
 “Coursera gamification12 is totally LMS. OTOH
#gamemooc has morphed into a wonderfully
supportive guild of educators.”

22. Games Based Learning MOOC
II
October 8 – November
18th

23. 6 Weeks
 Week 1 Games Based Learning Intro and
Research
 Week 2 Game Mechanics
 Week 3 Gamification
 Week 4 Immersive Environments
 Week 5 Games and Mobile
 Week 6 Assessment in Games

24. November 2 & 3
Virtual Worlds & Games
UnSymposium

25. Games MOOC II
 Brave Beginner Track
 Advanced Track
 Lurk and Learn!

26. Badges
 Game Based Learning
 Networked Educator

28. Popular Discussions
 Big “G” Games
 Flow and Fiero
 Badges
 Anything by Jim Gee
 Anything by Jane McGonigal
 John Seely Brown’s video that came out on
August 11
 Lurking
 MOOCs

29. Games & Immersive Learning
Faculty Challenge Grant
Due November
15

30. Social Media and Online
Presence
 Twitter – hashtag #gamemooc
 Flickr – Games MOOC group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gamesmooc/
 YouTube – gamesmooc
http://www.youtube.com/user/gamesmooc
 Second Life – Front Range and ISTE SIGVE
 World of Warcraft – Cognitive Dissonance
Educator’s Guild

31. G.A.M.E.
Gamers Advancing
Meaningful Education

32. It Takes A Guild
A Guild of Educators
Webinar Series
Every Third Thursday of the month

33. ISTE SIGVE
International Society for Technology in
Education
Special Interest Group – Virtual
Environments
Monthly Speaker Series

34. 6th SLanguages Annual
Symposium Conference
Fri Sep28-Sun Sep 30, 2012
Livestreamed
#slang12

35. An Overview of
MOOCs
Thursday, October 4 at 7 pm
Livestream
http://www.youtube.com/gamesmooc