Announcements

Dr. Eric B. Bauman, managing member of Clinical Playground, LLC will be in Tulsa, OK presenting workshops on Game-Based Learning for Medical Education during Medsation: 1st Annual OSU-CHS Medical Education Conference on August 2 & 3, 2011. The workshop will be given twice, once on each day and is titled Game-Based Learning for Clinical Education: A workshop to inform clinical educators and engage the contemporary learners. The workshop will focus on learner engagement, technology

Clinical Playground, LLC Managing Member, Eric B. Bauman was recently at the 2011 INACSL Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. This year’s conference was held at the Hilton Convention Center located on the Walt Disney property.  The conference was well attended and seems to be attracting more attendees from outside of the U.S. This conference seems to be growing every year.  Sessions were well attended including the session presented by Bauman and co-produced by

CliniSpace Screen Shot Clinical Playground, LLC is thrilled to be working with Parvati Dev, PhD of Innovation in Learning, Inc. on their award winning CliniSpaceTM virtual environment platform. CliniSpaceTM recently won the Grand Prize in the 2011 Federal Virtual Worlds Contest and First Place in the in the “Artificial Intelligence in Training” category. Clinical Playground, LLC is working to provide scripting and narrative for a multi-professional communication module, which will be demonstrated at the upcoming INACSL 10th Annual

Eric B. Bauman I was in Oklahoma City last week on May 24-25, 2011 for the 5th Annual Oklahoma Health Care Work Force Simulation Conference.  This year’s theme was “Training as a Patient Care Team”.  My talk titled Leveraging the Potential of Game-Based Learning for Clinical Education focused on the pedagogy of game-based learning and why multi-media tools like virtual environments and video games are becoming an important tool for clinical education, particularly multi-professional training opportunities that encompass all

Virtual Heroes HumanSim The 2011 Games for Health Conference in Boston last week was a big hit. This year featured distinct pre-conference tracks including the Medica Ludica track.  Clinical Playground’s own Eric B. Bauman presented on educational theory for game-based learning in the clinical sciences.  The Games for Health Conference series is one of the few venues where attendees can take a very hands on approach to learning about games designed for healthcare education from both the clinical and

Eric B. Bauman I will be headed out at the crack of dawn (why I think 6:00 AM flights are a good idea remains a mystery to me), making my way to Boston for Games for Health 2011.  I am speaking Tuesday afternoon during the Medica Ludica track. I am talking about the application of contemporary theory for Game-Based Learning for [Medical Education] multi-disciplinary clinical education.  The entire conference looks fantastic.  The  Medica Ludica track looks great.  Several friends and colleagues

Clinical Playground founding and managing member EricB. Bauman will be heading to Boston for the 7th annual Games for Health Conference.  This year’s Games for Health Conference also comprises multiple co-sponsored pre-conference events including Ludica Medica I: Medical Modeling, Simulation, Learning & Training with Videogames & Videogame Technologies.  This event’s playful title emphasizes its focus on a number of contributions that videogames, and their associated technologies make to the fields ofmedical modeling, simulation, and clinical

Eric B. Bauman, PhD, RN and his Games+Learning+Society colleague David W. Simkins were in Green Bay, Wisconsin yesterday presenting at the Year Five Wisconsin Technology Enhanced Collaboration in Nursing Education (WI TECNE) Conference.  Bauman and Simkins presented their analysis of five online nursing courses supported by WI TECNE offered through the University of Wisconsin System from a human interface perspective.  Bauman also gave a presentation about Online Gaming for Nursing Education. The conference

Filament Games of Madison, WI made a great showing at the National STEM Video Game Challenge this week. Their game, You Make Me Sick!, won the developer grand prize. The game teaches children about infection by having them design a bacteria or virus to infect a host. Congratulations! Only chronologically related, an announcement was recently made by DigiPen Institute of Technology that they will be hosting their first annual Serious Play Conference August 22-24, 2011 in Redmond