Serious gaming may change the face of education

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Thanks for your coverage of the Serious Games Summit, but you picked up errors that appeared in the original USA Today story. Here's what we told them.

Your 10/30 story on the Serious Games Summit erroneously states the following: "At Breakaway Games, founder Doug Whatley is even more bullish. Breakaway is set to begin testing its Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab at Yale University School of Medicine and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md."
Pulse!! is not a BreakAway project. It is owned by the Office of Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. It is a research project overseen by Dr. Claudia L. Johnston, Associate Vice President for Special Projects at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and a presenter at the Serious Games Summit. Dr. Johnston has laid all of the groundwork for the Pulse!! platform's being tested at Yale and Bethesda. BreakAway is under contract with the university to produce a work for hire. I don't know what Mr. Whatley said to Mr. Snider or what Mr. Snider actually wrote; but in any case, USA Today got it dead wrong. You owe your readers a correction.
Please let me anticipate another difficulty that invariably arises among news media covering this project. It is NOT a project of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, but of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, an independent institution and member of the Texas A&M University System.

Thanks for paying attention to this.

Posted by: Ron George   Posted on: 11/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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