Xenos is a virtual language learning portal where users can learn English through games and social activities in a collaborative environment. It uses the Integrated Social Learning Environment (ISLE) platform, which provides instructionally rigorous and pedagogically innovative learning games and activities for free. Research found that Xenos improved test scores for at-risk learners and increased student and teacher motivation by incorporating games into language instruction. The goal is to simplify the ISLE tools to engage more game developers and refine assessment tools to provide meaningful performance metrics for teachers and learners.

3. Learn a new language. Enter a new world.

4. Xenos is the premiere language learning web portal,
where users enter a virtual learning space to learn
English as a foreign or second language.

5. MISSION:
Bring the world closer together
through media that supports learn.

6. In
Games and activities are the
lifeblood of the Xenos
experience, played
collaboratively in the target
language to facilitate real-time,
authentic contexts to support
Spanish-speaking ESL high
school and early college
learners in the United States.

7. is built on
Integrated Social Learning Environment
is the first free and completely open platform for games,
activities, and social experiences designed to support
learning. The platform provides instructionally rigorous and
pedagogically innovative learning games and activities that
are free to all. The ISLE platform enables one-to-one and
one-to-many communications around games and activities
within a virtual learning space where opportunities exist for
students, teachers, and mentors alike to cast themselves in
roles for the teaching and learning.

8. Important findings:
Improvement of at-risk learner test scores,
the shift in student motivation to learn English,
and the change in teacher motivation to modify their strategies for
instruction with support from games.

9. Theory of change:
Our project goals emerge from a theory of change that puts games at
the center of a playful learning experience designed to change how
people approach and experience languages while encouraging and
enabling a wider community of creative learning game developers to
produce new applications, with our open ISLE tools and APIs,
reducing development costs and the challenges of reaching an
aggregated audience.

10. Project status:
Xenos recently entered beta and is continuing development in order to engage
and confirm mid-sized to larger development and distribution partners in the
language learning area.
Our goal is to simplify the tools we provide for a larger group of game producers,
emulating what we’ve seen with Apple and Droid application development. We
also aim to refine ISLE assessment and reporting tools, making it easier for
developers to integrate games with the platform while providing more meaningful
performance metrics to teachers and learners.

11. www.xenos-isle.com
www.learninggamesnetwork.org
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Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
617.494.4946
info@learninggamesnetwork.org
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