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Cultural heritage and scientist and Virtual Universes (Broacasting our studies)

Debate around Serious Games, simulations and virtual devices in the context of cultural heritage, sciences and museums.  Speakers : Benjamin Moréno -Mat3D, Julian Alvarez - Dreampict, Maria Hernandez/ Ariane Genty - Inolam, Pascal Alard - SESTA

Keywords : Serious Games, Sciences, Simulation

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Les cédéroms pour jouer ou pour apprendre ? (Book reference)

In this book, Catherine Kellner, a researcher in communication sciences, analyses and criticizes the so-called "edutainment" products. Through real-world examples, she highlights the common flaws of these products (storytelling elements used instead of play attributes, games using texts for kids who don't know how to read yet, boring games sequences, etc.). She also offers many ways to improves them (using the discovery space embedded in every game, learning by trial-and-error, etc.). [...]

Keywords : edutainment, research, analysis, critic

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