Game-based Learning (Interactive Demo)

What does the lesson “Finding Citations,” the game “Trivial Pursuit,” and the mechanic “Bluffing” all have in common? In this bootcamp brainstorm facilitated by a CUNY professor, attendees are broken up into design teams whose job it is to enhance a traditional lesson with the mechanics of popular board games in only 20 minutes. Whether you have to teach the rules of citation or the rules of interviewing, there is usually a game plan that can help. This game teaches you how to integrate educational games into your classroom, while providing a fun introduction to the principles of game-based learning.

Interactive Lightning Session: Game-based Learning in Higher Education

Games are known for leveraging enthusiasm, engagement, energy, knowledge, and passion on gamers; areas that are fundamentally important in higher education. Our panelists will share their perspectives on how Higher Education can take advantage of the potential of game based learning to create a more engaging student learning experien

Textual Differences in Game Reviews Written by Men and Women

The aim of this essay is to examine the differences in language use between the genders in game reviews, to find whether there are differences in the use of the language depending on gender. Both sexist language and technical aspects are examined, the technical aspects of writing have been chosen from previous research about gendered differences in writing. The reviews are randomly chosen but the games are selected. There is an equal amount of games with male and female main characters, and the number of reviews is chosen according to the number of reviews written by females, as there are fewer of them, and thus easier to find a matching number of reviews written by males rather than vice versa. The reviews are then examined to find sexist language and differences. This essay finds that there is sexist language in the writing of both genders, such as marked language, but only when the main character of the game is female. Both genders tend to focus on the appearance of female characters and the characteristics of male characters, but there is no known previous research about male and female game characters to compare these results to. However, the technical differences remain consistent with previous research on the same subject, such as female reviewers using more pronouns than male reviewers, and male reviewers using fewer verbs than female reviewers.

Game Audio in Audio Games : Towards a Theory on the Roles and Functions of Sound in Audio Games

For the past few decades, researchers have increased our understanding of how sound functions within various audio–visual media formats. With a different focus in mind, this study aims to identify the roles and functions of sound in relation to the game form Audio Games, in order to explore the potential of sound when acting as an autonomous narrative form. Because this is still a relatively unexplored research field, the main purpose of this study is to help establish a theoretical ground and stimulate further research within the field of audio games. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, this research relies on theoretical studies, examinations of audio games and contact with the audio game community. In order to reveal the roles of sound, the gathered data is analyzed according to both a contextual and a functional perspective. The research shows that a distinction between the terms ‘function’ and ‘role’ is important when analyzing sound in digital games. The analysis therefore results in the identification of two analytical levels that help define the functions and roles of an entity within a social context, named the Functional and the Interfunctional levels. In addition to successfully identifying three main roles of sound within audio games—each describing the relationship between sound and the entities game system, player and virtual environment—many other issues are also addressed. Consequently, and in accordance with its purpose, this study provides a broad foundation for further research of sound in both audio games and video games.

Euroland - The effect of Euro on international trade : Are there winners and losers in this ''Euro-game''?

This paper examines whether European Monetary Union (EMU) countries share fairly the effect of their membership in Eurozone (EZ) or whether are winners and losers in this ''Euro-game''. By using panel data of 27 European Union (EU) Member States for the period 2001-2012 in the context of a gravity model, we focus on estimating the Euro’s effect on bilateral trade and we detect whether this effect differs across the Member States of EZ. Two estimation methods are applied: Pooled OLS estimator and Fixed Effects estimator. The empirical results come to the conclusion that the individual country effects differ and are statistically significant, indicating that EMU’s effect on trade differs across the Member States of EZ. The overall effect of the Euro is statistically insignificant, regardless the estimation method, demonstrating that the common European currency may have no effect on bilateral trade.

The Long Game: Hamas, The IRA, and the Politics of Radicalization in Palestine and Northern Ireland

The value of a comparative study of the two conflicts stems from a remarkable similarity in the structural organization of political violence by its most influential practitioners: the IRA and Hamas. At the core, I have merely tried my best to approach a beguiling question in a fresh, dynamic way. The stultifying discourse of conflict that serves as lingua franca for the Israeli‐Palestinian issue has largely reduced strategic debate to how best the conflict can be managed – not ended. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s focus on “economic peace” and unwillingness to commit to a two‐state solution – the consensus that has governed peacemaking for decades – belies such thinking. The Clinton Administration’s cadre of Mideast negotiators operated amidst the most rapid institutionalization of Palestinian democracy in history ‐ yet remained obsessed with Israeli‐Arab “confidence‐building” measures, doing little to legitimize the gains of Oslo. So long as Palestinians continue to view the creation of Israel as “al‐Nakba” – the catastrophe – whilst successive Israeli governments refuse to grant their aspirations any legitimacy, there can be no progress. Peace requires empathy, a substantial compromise in the context of internecine conflict. The “long war” both conflicts have become mandates an equally expansive, broad‐based and labor‐intensive approach – a demanding process that can only be called The Long Game.

Winning the Accreditation Game: The Library as Key Player and Hidden Gold Mine

Libraries are a central hub of information resources supporting college and university curricula. Several library strategies, cross-campus collaborations, and philosophical considerations of electronic and print offerings led to successful accreditations in business and engineering programs.

The LDC debt problem: a game-theoretical analisys

We review the LDC debt crisis since 1982, by means of game theory. New insights are obtained into the reasons behind the formation of the creditors' carte1 and the nature of the difficu1ties invo1ved in the formation of the debtors' carte1. The standard view that Rubinstein's barganing mode1s are appropriate for dea1ing with debt re1ief is shown to be faulty, un1ess the debtor buys out the debt.

Antecedentes da participação das empresas no financiamento político: um estudo com dados gerados por meio de dinâmica de simulação empresarial (Business game)

Abordagens teóricas dominantes no campo da estratégia empresarial (PORTER, 1980; BARNEY, 1991; PISANO e TEECE, 1997), de modo geral, não consideram explicitamente o comportamento corporativo político como um componente do amplo conjunto de elementos que compõem a estrutura dos processos de formulação e implementação estratégica. A pouca ênfase dada ao papel das firmas na seara política resulta em limitações para compreensão do ambiente competitivo e, consequentemente reduz o poder explicativo de estudos que se propõem a desvendar as razões do desempenho diferenciado das organizações. Salorio, Boddewyn e Dahan (2005) reforçam tal perspectiva ao observarem que firmas são organizações econômicas na medida em que em suas transações ponderam custos, benefícios, lucros, market share, mas também, enquanto organizações precisam definir e gerenciar fronteiras, bem como diferenciar e integrar seus membros, os stakerolders e suas operações. Esse envolvimento em um mix de comportamento político-econômico de barganha e não barganha leva à definição das firmas também como organizações políticas. Apesar de tal linha de pensamento ainda ter conotação de novidade para alguns, de reciclagem de antigas ideias para outros, ou, mesmo, parecer se pautar pela tentativa de retomar questões que sempre foram tratadas de forma lateral, Salorio, Boddewyn e Dahan (2005) enfatizam que “the political is always there”. O presente projeto teve objetivo central modelar ambiente simulado para testar antecedentes da atividade política corporativa (HILLMAN, KEIM e SCHULER, 2004), e como objetivos específicos: Modelar um simulador dos ambientes de negócio e político das empresas; aplicar o simulador para gerar dados sobre os antecedentes da participação política; testar antecedentes da participação política como alternativa estratégica em resposta ao baixo desempenho das firmas, a disponibilidade de recursos e a atividade política de concorrentes; testar a interação entre antecedentes de market e nonmarket para explicar a participação política. Com relação aos objetivos, o estudo pode ser caracterizado como explicativo, e quanto aos procedimentos técnicos adotados como de laboratório. O tipo de pesquisa adotado foi o de verificação de hipóteses causais assentada em uma abordagem metodológica quantitativa, cujos dados foram coletados por meio de 12 simulações, estruturadas no formato de um business game, com nove empresas em cada simulação, totalizando 108 unidades de análise. Configuram-se como sujeitos da pesquisa alunos do último ano dos cursos de graduação em administração e economia da Universidade Estadual de Londrina. As análises dos dados foram efetuadas utilizando-se o software STATA para desenvolvimento das regressões, sendo considerado como modelo estatístico a técnica de dados em painel com efeito fixo (WOOLDRIDGE, 2003), visto que o foco do estudo é a análise das informações (decisões/desempenho) das empresas ao longo do tempo. Os resultados indicam que: a) a ineficiência da firma afeta positivamente o investimento em financiamento eleitoral; b) o investimento em ações políticas corporativas ocorre no sentido de complementação às ações de market e não em contraposição, c) a maior propensão em investir em nonmarket está relacionada com desempenho inferior ao da concorrência; d) o aumento do investimento em nonmarket não está relacionado com a ação política mais ativa por parte da concorrência. Não foram encontradas evidências de que firmas com maiores sobras de recursos são mais ativas politicamente.