by admin | Nov 10, 2020 | ACES
The UNIMAS ACES team has taken part as co-organizer in EnCon 2020 for Special track 5: Social innovation in STEM+ Education. More than 100 education enthusiasts have registered for the online workshop that was conducted online through Webex and Zoom application. The...
by admin | Jan 18, 2019 | CreativeCulture
Wednesday 12th December marked the Creative Cultures Gamification Seminar 2018, held in the MyCapsule Lab of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The culmination of a series of trips by Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) staff to Malaysia, the...
by admin | Jan 6, 2019 | CreativeCulture
During a recent trip to Malaysia as part of Creative Culture project, myself and colleague Oliver Wood designed and delivered a rapid prototyping workshop for the creation of educational games. Sometimes it can be challenging to explain the benefits of game design...
by admin | Sep 3, 2018 | Crowd4Roads
There is a number of evidence that suggests that games and gamified applications can drive collective action in the real world. How individuals interact with problem-solving within a gamified environment that can solve problems in the real world is such a hybrid...
by admin | May 24, 2018 | CreativeCulture
On 22nd May 2018, the Creative Culture team went to the rural village in Baram, Sarawak, called Long Lamai. The journey took us 5 hours to reach from Kuching International Airport to Long Lamai. We flew from Kuching to Miri airport, then Miri to Marudi. After that, we...
by admin | Sep 19, 2017 | Beaconing
The Beaconing project has just completed its first review (the first 18-month Reporting period) with success. Thanks to the reviewers and the EU Project Officer, we passed with no corrections; all deliverables excepted. We are highly inspired by the feedback from the...
by admin | Aug 24, 2017 | CreativeCulture
Since the launch of GameChangers in 2015, the initiative has produced two spin-out projects- Mobile GameChangers and CreativeCulture funded by HEFCE and Newton respectively. CreativeCulture was kicked off in February 2017, where the...
by admin | Apr 30, 2017 | Beaconing
We managed to meet our milestone for the end of April and presented what we have developed so far at the ELSE Conference 2017 as one of the 1/2 day workshops. It was pretty intense with quite a variety of prototypes to show- from the integrated gamified lesson path...
by admin | Feb 24, 2017 | CreativeCulture
DMLL has recently received funding from NEWTON UK-SEA (AHRC + MoHE) programme to expand the impact of the GameChangers initiative into South-East Asia. The project is called CreativeCulture, which stands for ‘Creative and participatory transcultural...
by admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Beaconing
Yes this post is a bit late as it is actually a year, 1 month and 20 days old today! The project has since produced some early mock-ups that were demonstrated at the last GALA conference in Utrecht, and has also been shortlisted for the Best Education Project...
