Books on Games, Virtual Worlds, Simulations, Cognitive Studies, and Performance Improvement

In the cue-

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal

Reading-

Neuromancer by William Gibson; an old science fiction/cyberpunk book, but where much of the thinking on VR/VWs got started. I guess Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson would come next.

Read-

The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education by Karl Kapp

Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield

Infinite Reality by Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson
Note: great book. Well worth the read. Will post a blog once I digest my thoughts on this.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration (Essential Knowledge Resource (Pfeiffer)) by Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll

Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning) by Clark Aldrich

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We Took Second Place at the Federal Virtual World’s Challenge!

3 Comments Published March 14th, 2011 in Uncategorized

We at the CUNY School of Professional Studies along with our development partners took second place in the Federal Virtual World’s Challenge run by the US Army Research Laboratory-Simulation and Training Technology Center based in Orlando, FL. Each year they give out awards to the best of the best among implementations as demonstrated in a virtual environment. This was out of a large group of about 4 dozen entries.

Click here for more details http://www.fvwc.army.mil/

While I had the honor of attending the conference and the award ceremony, this award was earned by all of the hard work put in by many different contributors, and I would like to acknowledge them here:

  • Dina Maniotis, Michael Schultz, and Robert Van Pelt at the New York City Office of Emergency Management.
  • Anders Gronstedt and Peter Guastella of the Gronstedt Group.
  • David Burden, Andrew Jinman, Jag Nishi and all the others at Daden.
  • Jon Brouchard.
  • Blasina Sims at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.

This was a great undertaking and a great contribution to the emergency preparedness level of NYC; we have finished one journey and are only at  the beggining of yet another.

Congratulations to all of the nominees this year. It was great to be in your company. Thanks to the host committee for hosting us and having us as a part of the Defense Gametech Conference.

The team agreed to donate the cash prize to the CUNY School of Professional Studies General Scholarship Fund to support the further development of students.

3 Responses to “We Took Second Place at the Federal Virtual World’s Challenge!”

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  1. 1 Maura A. Smale (she/her) Mar 18th, 2011 at 8:00 am

    Congratulations, Andrew, to you and your entire team — great news!

  2. 2 Andrew Boyarsky Mar 18th, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Thanks Maura; I am excited to attend the conference and find out about the different Gov’t applications of VWs and games.

  3. 3 Soulla Stylianou Mar 25th, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Just heard the news that the project came second in its category. Well done. Great outcome for everyone who worked on the project.

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