Simulations & Games Development Initiative

Director/s: Jim Bailey (Lane Community College) & Jonathon Richter

Funding agency: National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education

Beginning – Ending Dates: August 2008 – June 2011

Description:

The Simulations Gaming Development Initiative (SGDI) program at Lane Community College aims to integrate programming and gaming industry curricula into a distributed 3D virtual and web-enhanced platform in order to enhance access and innovation for people across the country. The project has been designed to start locally and scale up as the capacity for a geodistributed Community of Practice emerges to include distance students from participating high schools and community colleges. An introduction to Second Life course is being piloted Fall 2009, with concurrent design of a gaming and simulation programming course to be implemented Spring 2010. The SGDI project features a focus on building capacity to attract non-typical students into the computer sciences – particularly females – by developing support structures for learning such content in accessible and collaborative ways.

Key people: Jonathon Richter & Ulad Slabin

Collaborators/partners: Lane Community College

Contact: Jonathon Richter

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