Global thinking brings national recognition
Global thinking brings national recognition
Working and thinking across the world has seen Waiariki Institute of Technology academic Alan Fowler recognised at the annual Computing and Information Technology, Education and Research in New Zealand awards.
The senior computing
lecturer was awarded the 2013 CITRENZ Award for
Collaborative Research during their recent conference in
Hamilton.
The collaborative research paper was an
investigation into the growth and significance of the Global
Game Jam for Teaching and Learning. Mr Fowler who was
recognised with a Waiariki Institute of Technology Chief
Executive Award for Research in 2012 worked with Foaad
Khosmood from California Polytechnic State University, USA,
Ali Arya from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Gorm
Lai from Kotori Studios, London, United Kingdom on the
project.
The paper was an investigation into the growth
and significance of the Global Game Jam for Teaching and
Learning
Here is the abstract from the paper-
The
Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game
development activity. Every year since 2009, thousands of
computer game enthusiasts participate in this forty-eight
hour challenge to make games around the same theme. While
game jams, ‘hackathons’, and game festivals existed
before the GGJ, and continue to proliferate, the GGJ 2009
was perhaps the first time such events were held in multiple
physical spaces (23 countries) at the same time. In this
paper, we track the growth of GGJ using multiple dimensions,
and discuss the potential for research and teaching through
this popular
activity.
ENDS