Maybe I was in the woods last summer when this came out, or maybe it passed under the radar? On July 16 of last year, the House of Representatives (on a voice vote, no record) passed House Resolution 487 :
Recognizing the contribution of modeling and simulation technology to the security and prosperity of the United States, and recognizing modeling and simulation as a National Critical Technology.
Wow, what I do is critical! And here I thought I was just having fun and doing good… I found out about this when it was cited in an RFP we (partner organization and I) were responding to. Not quite sure what this means, practically. I can be somewhat naive of governmental subterfuge (while cynical of the whole thing), but item 7 caught my eye:
(7) encourages the development and implementation of ways to protect intellectual property of modeling and simulation enterprises.
So, maybe this is a way to give some legal ammunition to an or...
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UK eLearning MissionFrom: blog.learnlets.com
Post Date: 2006-05-12 15:34:31
It’s been too long since I’ve posted, but among other things I’d been preparing for the UK eLearning Mission that happened yesterday. A team of selected eLearning experts are over here on a government sponsored visit to suss out what’s new and exciting. I had the honor of co-chairing the session with Dr. Jim Terkeurst from the University of Abertay, so I used my time to lob a couple of frameworks (will blog them soon) into the air to set the stage.
The reps ...
more E3 at GamaSutraFrom: blog.learnlets.com
Post Date: 2006-05-15 16:21:02
GamaSutra (the game development community site; free registration may be required) has several articles summing up panels from the recent E3 expo. For those who don’t know, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is the game industry show, where the latest games and platforms are shown off to try to drive business. It’s an enormous spectacle (the game industry now is bigger than movies) with giant vehicles and creatures, hosts of ‘booth babes’, eve...
more Industrial Strength Game DesignFrom: blog.learnlets.com
Post Date: 2006-05-17 17:37:53
At the UK eLearning Mission that happened last week, one of the US representatives was from a game development firm established to work in the Serious Games space after having been contacted about one of their pure games (very much like the ‘military squad’ games). They do full immersive games of a scale approaching that of commercial games, and with a similar quality. I assumed at a similar price point, but he jumped on that.
He said they worked out at about $18K per ...
more DesignFrom: blog.learnlets.com
Post Date: 2006-05-28 13:45:56
Jay Cross, jumping off from Michael Allen’s new book, has posted about design processes. It’s timely, as I’ve had my head down on designing a conference, on a design project with a client, and designing my subject to start next weekend.
Jay, not surpisingly, argues against the standard design process, by and large, arguing for learning ecosystems (a term I first heard from Shirley Alexander at UTS, one of those I venerate) instead:
Michael’s prescription...
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