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Serious Games and STEM Education Seameo Recsam, Penang David Wortley Director Serious Games Institute

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This is an abstract of the presentation on STEM Education delivered to SEAMEO Recsam in Penang on November 26th 2009

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Page 1: Serious Games And Stem Education

Serious Games and STEM EducationSeameo Recsam, Penang

David WortleyDirector

Serious Games Institute

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Serious Games and STEM Education

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Engaging Students in Technology

Games related technologies can engage students and generate an interest in science, engineering

& Maths

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Smallpeice Trust

Commissioned web based games to attract engineers of tomorrow

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HASTAC

USA Competition for STEM initiatives

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Science Games (Playgen)

Serious games can stimulate an interest in science and support social networking

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Daden Datascape

Visualisation of scientific data in a virtual world

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BBC Climate Challenge

Save the environment or destroy it

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Floodsim

Understand factors in flood prevention

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Caspian Thinking Worlds

Teachers and Students can design their own STEM learning games

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Immersive Education Mission Maker

Teachers and Students can design their own STEM learning games

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Serious Games and STEM EducationSeameo Recsam, Penang

David WortleyDirector

Serious Games Institute