George Kalmpourtzis

Defining the learning context of your games

Designing educational games without understanding one’s context is like designing a vehicle where you don’t know if it’s going to move on land, sea or air! In the continuous and fierce discussion about the value and impact of games in…Read more
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Are games the solution to any educational challenge?

The first question that any educational game designer should ask is not whether or not games are efficient learning tools (yes, they are!) but how they are going to accomplish their learning objectives. Without doubt the interest of educators and…Read more
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Lecture at Hong Kong’s City University

I was recently invited to perform a lecture for the students of CityU’s School of Media. It was an amazing experience and I want to thank the Dean, Richard Allen, and the faculty for their warm hospitality! The subject of…Read more
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Game Design Education Workshops

During the last month, I was asked to organize and facilitate some game design workshops for educators in the area of Thessaloniki. The workshops focused on the area of educational games and their impact on learning and student engagement in…Read more
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The Math Mathews Games

I am a great fan of the Math Mathews games designed by my friends in Kiupe. Kiupe is an education game studio, located in the heart of Lyon, consisting of a really powerful team of few but highly skilled and…Read more
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An introduction to SCORM

My friend and colleague Romain Gibert recently posted an interesting article on his blog: [here] There are no technical standards when it comes to format and compatibility with elearning. SCORM has been the de-facto model for interoperability and compatibility among…Read more
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How to design immersive game experiences: Mastering norms

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. Educational game design is strongly linked with sociocultural aspects of individual groups. Players have already defined expectations since they have played several games. They have seen movies,…Read more
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Observing and exploring as a tool for learning

Almost two and a half thousand years ago, the Greek mathematician Archimedes was preparing for his bath in Syracuse. Entering his bath-tub, he observed that the level of water was rising the more he was diving in. It was at…Read more
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How to motivate students to learn?!

There are several cases where students show greater interest for particular activities contrary to others. However, the nature of those activities is not always defined. Someone would think that only games can be engaging for students but in fact, engagement…Read more
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Teachers’ greatest challenge

In his book Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000, Isaac Asimov chose to publish designs of artists, who at the beginning of the twentieth century, tried to imagine how the world be a hundred years later. One of…Read more
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