Paul Kearney Senior Academic Staff Member School of Computing & Information Technology UNITEC New Zealand, www.computing.unitec.ac.nz

Feedback for the Game Platform “UniGame: Social Skills and Knowledge Training”. The comments in the attached document were sourced from second year MComp students (Master of Computing), during a class on instructional design for interactive learning. The PDF detailing teacher instructions was supplied to the students, as was the URL of the UniGame site. The students were asked to individually critique UniGame and present their comments in class the following day. This is a summary of their individual views.

The guideline can be found under: http://www.unigame.net/html/UniGame_guidelines.pdf The UniGame webpage offers more information: http://www.unigame.net Retrieved on: 06.03.06

The guidelines support trainers by introducing game-based learning in their classes using the “UniGame” platform that promotes soft skills acquisition and an interdisciplinary approach to learning and is based on collaborative learning theory. “UniGame: Social Skills and Knowledge Training” platform enables trainers to develop their own on-line role playing games. The game scenario and how to develop a new game in the “UniGame” platform are described in more detail.

Maja Pivec, Anni Koubek, Claudio Dondi (Eds.) Pabst Science Publishers, 2004 ISBN 3-89967-193-7 (Europe), ISBN 1-59326-072-5 (USA)

The primary targert-group of these guidelines is practicioners, i.e. all pedagogues, teachers and trainers that want to implement game-based learning in their classes. The book will help them to systematically find commercial games and introduce them into their classes, or to implement their own ideas in the form of an educational game. Activities included in the chapters often support in this proactive behaviour.