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Racing Academy: the large scale implementation of a racing car simulation game in further and higher education |
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The project is funded by JISC and is a large scale innovation that will have an impact across three institutions, four courses and two subject areas. It aims to tackle some key educational challenges in the 21st century by using Racing Academy, a massively multiplayer online game, to support in the delivery of the new science and engineering curriculum. Racing Academy was designed to develop and support a community of practice based not on fictional qualities, but on real physics principles. Players must engage with the underlying physics and work as a member of a community of practice where practice arises out of real physics and involves the social negotiation of understanding. In the first phase (start February 2006) of the project, Racing Academy will be integrated more fully into the science and engineering curriculum of the partners of the project through a series design workshops. The second phase (start September 2006) is the evaluation of student's and teachers use of Racing Academy, investigating its strengths and weaknesses and outlining further developments for the future. The third phase is analysis of the finings (start December 2006) and the final phase is dissemination (start March 2006 finish June 2007 ).The project will contribute to the programme by identifying effective approaches to e-learning practice, creating examples of effective practices, designing innovative e-learning applications and enabling the sharing of resources and practices. Click on the link below for the revised version of the software Racing Academy was developed by Lateral Visions and Nesta FutureLab and the link below is connected to the Nesta Racing Academy website.More Information about previous work can be found at the website below. |
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Members |
| Richard Joiner | University of Bath |
| Martin Owen | Nesta FutureLab |
| Carl Gavin | Lateral Visions |
| Jos Darling | University of Bath |
| Andy Diament | Penwith College |
| Harry Daniels | University of Bath |
| Stepehen Miller | Barnfield College |
| John Duddley | Barnfield College |
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An e-learning workshop is to be held in December 2006 by the Engineering
Subject Centre, where the findings of the JISC project RESET will
also be disseminated. Talks are currently being held with Barnfield
College, who have expressed an interest in hosting the event. RSC South West is holding their annual summer conference in June 2007 and it was suggested that we prepare a workshop or seminar for the event since this coincides with our dissemination period. They have agreed to keep us informed of the details. We are also presenting a paper at the 12th Biennial conference on Learning and Instruction in Budapest in August 2007. The abstract is aviable by clivking on the link below. Futurelab has recently show cased Racing Academy and there is an article at the following weblink We also gave a presentation to JISC sumarising our progress to date. Click on the link below to see the presentation.
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Racing Acdemy is been used in the following courses and attached are the lessons plans |
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We have developed an evaluation framework for this project and a detailed description of that fraemwork can be found in the document below Racing Academy Evaluation Framework
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