We've come a long way from Columbine and Doom.
This could work, I am one in full agreement of educational video games. I mean we do have outlets for this for preteens with Leapfrog and...well I can't name the others off my head; I do not wish to stereotype but for the sake of the article using a video game in the education system, the younger generation with exceptions to all ages have their head in a phone or other mobile device for much of the day and night. I just hope it is TouchScreen Capable like Civ V was.
My biggest question is how do you categorize a class like this? What degree does it fit into? Politics? Law? ROTC Programs? General Enrollment?
From an IT perspective, I have enough users on campus that are inexperienced with other applications that expecting them to learn a video game with this many layers might require a lot of prep time and tutorials. ((I'd be 100% okay with spending time making them))
From my gamer's perspective of years of my life spend on the "One More Turn" life style: There is a learning curve to the game itself that I hope CivEDU addresses for all age groups and turn based strategy competence. Barbarians even with Raging Off, can destroy a novice player if they go unchecked on their land mass, Greece or Atilla will come in and wreck you eventually if you're not paying attention. But I guess this is part of the exercise.
Having been in the trenches for a number of years, it isn't just heathcare where password misuse is 'Endemic' I am not sure how paywalled this article is but this here: ~~ "Those two, competing goals often clash. “IT want to be good guys. They’re not out to make life miserable for the clinical staff, but they often do,” he said." ~~ I've been in their shoes, and at the next HIPAA Compliance check they are doomed with IT taking most of the blame. We can only advise them in the end to follow best practice. Anyone have an article about a doctor being fired for password misuse and not IT? Just my 2 cents.
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We've come a long way from Columbine and Doom. This could work, I am one in full agreement of educational video games. I mean we do have outlets for this for preteens with Leapfrog and...well I can't name the others off my head; I do not wish to stereotype but for the sake of the article using a video game in the education system, the younger generation with exceptions to all ages have their head in a phone or other mobile device for much of the day and night. I just hope it is TouchScreen Capable like Civ V was. My biggest question is how do you categorize a class like this? What degree does it fit into? Politics? Law? ROTC Programs? General Enrollment? From an IT perspective, I have enough users on campus that are inexperienced with other applications that expecting them to learn a video game with this many layers might require a lot of prep time and tutorials. ((I'd be 100% okay with spending time making them)) From my gamer's perspective of years of my life spend on the "One More Turn" life style: There is a learning curve to the game itself that I hope CivEDU addresses for all age groups and turn based strategy competence. Barbarians even with Raging Off, can destroy a novice player if they go unchecked on their land mass, Greece or Atilla will come in and wreck you eventually if you're not paying attention. But I guess this is part of the exercise.
Having been in the trenches for a number of years, it isn't just heathcare where password misuse is 'Endemic' I am not sure how paywalled this article is but this here: ~~ "Those two, competing goals often clash. “IT want to be good guys. They’re not out to make life miserable for the clinical staff, but they often do,” he said." ~~ I've been in their shoes, and at the next HIPAA Compliance check they are doomed with IT taking most of the blame. We can only advise them in the end to follow best practice. Anyone have an article about a doctor being fired for password misuse and not IT? Just my 2 cents.