Interactive Game creation

As opposed to the integration of complex, expensive in production and commercialised games in didactical settings, this project clearly follows the second approach in serious game- based learning that involved learners and transform them into game structures and principles.

The project aims and outputs are:

- To develop a freely available online editor published under the open - source principles for serious game creation that helps teachers and students that lack a technical background to actively participate in the game - creation process.

- To develop an online- portal and game- server that makes these newly created games available and features them in a miniature virtual world to facilitate the exchange and further creation of serious online- games for learning.

- To facilitate the integration of games from the online- portal / game- server in learning management systems (e.g. Moodle) and social communities.

- To offer the game editor in the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Finninsh and Dutch.

This novel learning and teaching approach of the project leads to an enhanced participation of the learners in their own learning process and addresses know- how, abilities, skills and models ways of communication and social networking, which young people are familiar with today. Thus students will be made to teachers by offering their expertise in gaming and social networking. Teachers can easily integrate their content- related expertise without the need for technical know- how or background. Additional impacts are cross- cultural interactions between users and developers as well as an increase in learners’ motivation and competences.

Master-D will be a partners in this project working closely with EDEN network in the Quality Plan and other activities.

The IT services in Europe represents some 168 billion Euro in 2008, and expected to grown by around 9 billion Euro in 2009 which means and increase of 5.5% not only this but around a third of European organisations have postponed due to the lack of skills. At the same time companies find enormous difficulties at the time of hiring high qualified staff.

Technology lies on a very changing environment. Master-D in collaboration with other prestigious entities will develop a project which main purpose will be find a balance in that environment.

The way to do it will be by developing education courses to train students, workers and unemployed on new technologies an how to face changes. Sometimes the first an hardest barriers in the acknowledged that we have on a matter, especially when is as arduous as this one. We´ll sweep that problem away.

Project details:

• Project title: New E-competences for Europe
• Estimated duration: 24 months
• Estimated budget: 314119 €
• Type of project/action: Leonardo da Vinci/Multilateral projects for the Development of innovation
• Project status: presentation date 2010.
• Participants:

1. Master Distancia S.A.
2. Instititiúid Teicneolaíochta Trá Lí, ITT
3. M2A Technologies SARL
4. Thuringian Association of Adult Education Centres
5. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
6. EDEN