Session Name: | Game Education is Global: Contexts and Collaborations |
Speaker(s): | William Huber, Annakaisa Kultima, Hanna Wirman, Hanli Geyser |
Company Name(s): | Abertay University, School of Art, Media and Games, Aalto University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design, University of the Witwatersrand |
Track / Format: | Educators Summit |
Overview: | Five educators from different regions: Europe, South Africa, East Asia, and Latin America describe the national, economic, and institutional conditions in which they have organized courses and programs to teach game design and development. Each will describe the relationships with local industry and game-making cultures, and discuss the possibilities for international collaboration among students and teachers, and how North American game design and development programs can work with their counterparts overseas. |