This is a blog where I write about learning, about games, about games and learning, about learning about games…
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My extended bio reads like so:
Dr Daniel Livingstone lectures in Computer Science at the University
of the West of Scotland, specialising in Computer Game Technology and
Virtual Worlds, teaching classes from Real Time 3D software
development with OpenGL through to Collaborative Virtual Environments.
Daniel is an active researcher in the educational applications of
multi-user virtual environments. His first experiences of MUVE’s led
to him becoming a wizard in an LPMUD – despite which he managed to
graduate from the University in Strathclyde with a degree in Computer
and Electronic Systems. This was followed by a Masters in Artificial
Intelligence from the University of Essex and then a PhD in the
computer modelling of the evolution of language and languages at the
University of Paisley (now University of the West of Scotland) – since
when his active research interests have taken him back to virtual
worlds.
In recent years, Daniel co-chaired the Second Life Education Workshops
in 2006 and 2007, and founded the Massively Multi-Learner series of
workshops for the HEA-ICS in the UK, and recently completed co-editing
a volume on Researching Education and Learning in Virtual Environments
(RE-LIVE) to be published in 2010 by Springer.
He is a co-founder of the open-source SLOODLE project – the world’s
first project attempting to formally integrate multi-user virtual
environments with web-based virtual learning environments. Dr.
Livingstone was the lead-investigator in the EDUSERV funded project
“Online Learning In Virtual Environments with SLOODLE”, a US$240,000
project to further develop the SLOODLE software and community. This
two-year grant awarded in 2007 is now nearing completion, and has seen
SLOODLE grow from an idea into a tool that has been used by dozens of
educators around the globe, with class sizes ranging from less than
ten students to classes of hundreds.
Dr. Livingstone’s research interests also include Artificial
Intelligence in games and the use of handheld devices for game based
learning.
Dr. Livingstone’s alter egos include Buddy Sprocket (Second Life,
Home) and dlivingstone (MetaPlace). He no-longer has a Club Penguin
avatar, as he had to give that to one of his daughters.
