| Dundee’s Abertay University has teamed up with Learning and Teaching Scotland, responsible for curriculum and technology developments in schools.
They are collaborating on a project to develop video games that can be used to teach key parts of the curriculum.
If it proves successful, it could be rolled out across the country. Eventually about 400,000 could be using their own free “learning consoles” at home and Dundee could become the base for one of the world’s biggest educational video games companies.
That company is Add Knowledge Ltd., a spin-off from the university, which announced today it has appointed Chris van der Kuyl, founder of Vis Entertainment, as its chairman. He now chairs the Tayforth group, which has interests in video games and digital music and entertainment media, and is a visiting professor at Abertay.
He said, “We are confident it works — now the challenge is to instil that confidence in teachers, parents and everyone concerned and to put together the funding package that can make our concept a reality.”
Add Knowledge was founded by Abertay’s Professor Paul Fullwood.
His focus has been on trying to encourage primary age pupils to continue their studies beyond the school day.
Professor Fullwood explained eventually up to 200 games could be created built so they allow children to pick up useful knowledge without it being obvious they are doing so. |
