80DAYS: Around an inspiring virtual learning world in eighty days
The development of immersive digital educational games (DEG) is a dawning and highly promising, but also highly challenging, technology. Computer games offer engaging and inspiring virtual environments within which entirely new, motivating, and meaningful learning experiences and contexts can be realized. Their simulative characteristics strongly contribute to the paradigm of knowledge construction; moreover, multiplayer games serve the ideas of collaborative learning. DEGs basically aim at using the time spent on playing for educational purposes while retaining the recreational value of gaming. Furthermore, such games aim at facilitating learning by providing inspiring learning experiences in an appealing and meaningful learning context.
80Days has the ambitious mission to significantly improve the scientific and technological state-of-the-art of digital games for educational purposes, as well as to pave the way for educational games to successfully enter the computer game and educational markets.
