Collegeology director, Bill Tierney, was just elected president of the American Education Research Association.  AERA serves over 25,000 members (educators, administrators, directors of research; asssessment experts, counselors, evaluators, graduate students, and behavioral scientists). Bill is the first Professor of Higher Education to hold the position. For details, click here.  A big congratulations to Bill from the Collegeology team!

Tracy Fullerton recently attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.  The GDC attracts over 18,000 attendees and is  largest professionals-only game industry event in the world.  Tracy was interviewed by the Cologne Game Lab and spoke about how game education has changed over the last quarter of a century.  Check out the interview here.

Collegeology team members recently participated in a meeting sponsored by the Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and the USC Cinema School.  Tracy Fullerton, lead Collegeology game designer and director of USC’s Game Innovation Lab, co-chaired the meeting. The two-day event convened game designers, user satisfaction experts (the people who determine if a game is fun or not), assessment experts (mostly academic folk who delve into learning outcomes and socio-cognitive behaviors) and content experts to tackle the complex yet intriguing issue of games and learning.  Collegeology game designers Elizabeth Swensen and Sean Bouchard lead breakout sessions where meeting attendees engaged in “speed-prototyping” games based on various learning objectives.  Dr. Zoe Corwin served as the core content expert and Dr. Gisele Ragusa served as the assessment expert for a session on “College Knowledge as a Collective Endeavor.”

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