The European Conference on Games-Based Learning (ECCBL 2008) invites researchers, academics and professionals from games and education to come together to listen, discuss and present their research, points of views and knowledge.
This is the 2nd year of the conference and it will be hosted by The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona and held in the Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona. The city is renowned as one of the most important cultural and administrative centres in Spain. The Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia) is an online, on-the-Web university, a pioneer both for its innovative pedagogical model and for the quality of its learning processes. The UOC's educational model uses information and communications technologies intensively, based on a virtual environment that stresses communication and relationships between individuals.
The conference will address elements of both theory and practice of all aspects of Games-Based Learning, and offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants involved in the field to exchange ideas. he programme for the event will include an extensive range of peer-reviewed papers, including keynote presentations from leaders in the field.
This is the 2nd year of the conference and it will be hosted by The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona and held in the Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona. The city is renowned as one of the most important cultural and administrative centres in Spain. The Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia) is an online, on-the-Web university, a pioneer both for its innovative pedagogical model and for the quality of its learning processes. The UOC's educational model uses information and communications technologies intensively, based on a virtual environment that stresses communication and relationships between individuals.
The conference will address elements of both theory and practice of all aspects of Games-Based Learning, and offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants involved in the field to exchange ideas. he programme for the event will include an extensive range of peer-reviewed papers, including keynote presentations from leaders in the field.
