IMAGINEIncreasing Mainstreaming of Games In Learning PoliciesCarol UsherMDR PartnersWith the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

IMAGINE aims to gather together evidence to support the use of games in learning and help develop key skills and competences: strategic thinking planning; communicationapplication of numbersnegotiating skillsgroup decision-making data-handling eye-hand coordination About IMAGINE

The 'core' aims and objectives of the project are to: Draw together and valorise the results of previous Game Based Learning initiatives and projects across the school, adult and vocational learning. sectors.Use this evidence to influence policy makers' perceptions and actions to support a marked increase in piloting and mainstreaming of GBL.Have a significant impact on validating new learning paradigms and strategic thinking on curriculum reform.Aims and Objectives

There are 6 Partners in the Project:MDR Partners - UKCross Czech – Czech RepublicEuropean Schoolnet (EUN) - EuropeFH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Sciences - AustriaSüleyman Demirel University - TurkeyUniversity of Ljubljana - SloveniaProject Partners

Resources and results will be available on the IMAGINE websiteIMAGINE Website

Examples of good practice case studies spread across three education levels. For the school education sector (Comenius) For the adult/lifelong learning sector (Grundtvig) For the vocational learning sector (Leonardo) A selection of representatives from the leading case study projects will be invited to attend the sectoral roundtable meetingsand the Final Conference. Case Studies

For the school education sector (Comenius)

For the adult/lifelong learning sector (Grundtvig)

For the vocational learning sector (Leonardo)

The Games Directory will provide an extensive list of GBL products and services available throughout Europe. Featuresgames categoriesfully searchable each game to be linked to an associated forum topicfacility to rate games from 1 to 5 and to add a comment to support the ratingsorting by rating, published date and most viewedGames Directory

The result of desk based research, this report identifies Game Based Learning projects within the European community and provides a description of good practice case studies spread across all levels of education.Compiled by Maja and Paul Pivec FH JOANNEUM University of Applied SciencesFinal Report

IMAGINE will produce a series of recommendations to policy makers on the use of GBL.The recommendations will cover multiple dimensions of the policy making issues concerning the introduction of games in education including: education systems; individual institutions; the uses of technology; economic and financial issues; cultural and linguistic issues. Translated versions of the Recommendations will be available.Recommendations

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