education
Culture
ESA Report: More Than 250 Colleges Offer Game Degrees
6:00AM Owen Good | More than 50 game development programs have been added to US colleges’ curricula in the past year, bringing to 254 the number of universities offering degrees in video game design, programming and art, according to the Entertainment Software Association. More »
News
9:00AM David Wildgoose | The Australian Film Radio and Television School is now taking applications for a 2010 course in Games & Virtual Worlds. More »
Australian Film School Offers Games Course For 2010
9:00AM David Wildgoose | The Australian Film Radio and Television School is now taking applications for a 2010 course in Games & Virtual Worlds. More »
Culture
UC-Irvine Establishes Games Research Center
6:00AM Owen Good | The University of California-Irvine, already home to a game culture lab, has established the centre for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds. Twenty faculty members from the university’s computer science, humanities, education and other departments will collaborate on its work. More »
News
1:00PM David Wildgoose | This Sunday, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is holding its annual open day. Students thinking about a career in game development would do well to drop by. More »
Students, Want To Learn What It’s Like To Make Video Games?
1:00PM David Wildgoose | This Sunday, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is holding its annual open day. Students thinking about a career in game development would do well to drop by. More »
Features
Libraries Got Game
8:00AM Brian Crecente | There are, perhaps, few more disconsonant scenes than of the austere silence of the library and the boisterous play of video games, but a growing movement is starting to put the two under one roof. More »
News
DreamBox Succeeds At Tricking Kids Into Learning Math
10:40AM AJ Glasser | Seven months ago, DreamBox Learning launched its math-based edutainment site for kids between kindergarten and second grade. Today, it’s making virtual headlines with success stories. More »
Media
Will Wright Talks Educational Gaming, Funny Money
1:00AM Brian Crecente
The Chronicle of Higher Education sat down recently with Will Wright to talk to him about the value of educational games. Not only did they get some great money quotes, they got some great money business cards! More »
Culture
Texas Library Geeks Out With Consoles, Cosplay
5:00AM Owen Good | I’m 35, and “teen summer reading program” sounds only slightly more fun than “adopt a highway,” so, good luck firing up kids for that, right? Well, add cosplay and games and suddenly you’re talking. More »
News
Underground Railroad Video Game Tells The Whole Story
12:00PM Mike Fahey | After ages of misrepresentation in books, films, and television, Norfolk University history professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander wants to tell the true story of the slave-liberating Underground Railroad using a video game. More »
Culture
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Pictures of students sitting under trees? Crowded libraries? Professors lecturing? Boring! A school campus in retro 8-bit? That’s more like it. More »
The Bestest College Webpage Ever
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Pictures of students sitting under trees? Crowded libraries? Professors lecturing? Boring! A school campus in retro 8-bit? That’s more like it. More » 
