Mr. Thillay from French ministry of education presented the new roadmap for schools in France at the Beaconing GA
Posted by Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
On the last day of the Beaconing General Assembly, Mr. Thillay from the French Ministry of Education presented the new roadmap for the French education including the reform oof the lycées and the Baccalaureate and the vocational training. This initiative includes tenders for developing new digital material and solutions. A part of it…
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Experiments with teachers in training to test a game to raise awareness against cyberbullying
Posted by Cristina Alonso
As part of the validation and improvement process of the Analytics System, a series of experiments have been conducted with teachers and teachers in training testing a serious game. The experiments aimed to validate both the game and the xAPI based Analytics System with future teachers and show them how games can be…
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STEM Education
Posted by Marius Preda
When I heard for the first time the word STEM education I automatically thought of stem cells, those cells that have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth, but I learned it’s an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.…
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Heriot-Watt pilots the VET game with Edinburgh College
Posted by Aparajithan Sivanathan
Heriot-Watt University has started its pilots with lecturers and students form Edinburgh college. Amazingly, Students just started the playing the game with no instructions at all! Does this mean our developers have captured their domain requirements spot-on? Although the early observations evidenced the 'play' was undoubtedly enjoyable, there is more to the story.…
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Augmented Reality Book reviews exhibition – Coventry Central Library
Posted by Michael Loizou
Members of the BEACONING project and DMLL staff attended the opening of an exhibition of Augmented reality book reviews. Sylvester Arnab, Michael Loizou, Luca Morini and Mark Lewis assisted in the background research and testing of various Augmented Reality packages which helped Coventry Library select Aurasma as the software to be used in…
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