ISAGA NEWS 2021-04

Dear ISAGA members and friends,
in this Newsletter, you can find a Call for participation in a special interest group hosted by ISAGA; updates on Indore conference; next Indore webinar announcement; new online course starting in June; call for papers – Book proposal; The 2021 James Paul Gee Learning Games Award; and Calendar of events.

 

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Call for participation in a special interest group hosted by ISAGA

 
Dear ISAGA members,
with enthusiasm we inform you of our new initiative to initiate Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) as a result of conversations between the ISAGA board (contact persons Elena Likhacheva, Marieke de Wijse and Heide Lukosch) and a number of members of the ISAGA community.
 
We will initiate inclusive and open Special Interest Groups that are active, welcoming and that will report regularly on progress and activities on the website, in the newsletter and of course the AC and the EB. Before we go into the actual work, we want to consolidate the SIGs together with the wider ISAGA community. Please feel free to add and comment on the agreements around the SIGs by emailing marieke@isaga.net or elena@isaga.net . Marieke will collect them and discuss these with the EB and of course report back to you.
 

1. An ISAGA SIG is an open group of people interested in the same theme, topic or aspect of gaming and simulation. SIG membership is open to all ISAGA members, and non-members can be friend of a SIG.
2. SIGs do not have formal hierarchy, nor any responsibilities in the ISAGA structure. They form primarily a structure for people to find, discuss and develop together with interested peers.
3. Every SIG has 1 or 2 ISAGA members as point of contact. They are listed on the ISAGA website.
4. SIGs can be started after a short written request to the EB, containing the focus of the SIG, an initial list of interested members, and a proposed contact person. The EB checks for potential overlap, and significance of the initiative for the full ISAGA community. The EB has at all times the right to terminate a SIG, if reasons may occur.
5. SIGs can take initiatives, like for instance proposing special issues, conference workshops, webinars, etc. They can also be approached by conference organizers, journal editors, etc., as interested reviewers. 
6. SIGs will obviously overlap with other professional and personal engagements. The existence of a SIG, or the personal engagement with a SIG can never be exclusive for a person or a topic. It should be natural pathways, and not limiting structures.

We have some concrete SIG groups to start with:

1. Sustainability and environmental simulation games
2. Facilitation of simulation games and playful learning environments
3. Policy gaming
4. Simulation games in health care
5. Simulation games and system dynamics
6. ….. (your initiative)

During some pre work to find out if there was support among our community for these groups people already showed interest for these groups. We manage a list of these individuals. You can directly email your interest to either Marieke@isaga.net or elena@isaga.net or you can fill out the questionnaire we will send you soon via email.
 
On the form https://forms.gle/99vR4G6oyyLpgo6J6  you can also add Special Interest groups you prefer. Of course, these groups can have overlap and can cooperate. Some people from the NASAGA community will join these groups as well.
 
The plan is to have a maximum investment of 2 hours per month consisting of a meeting and time to perform actions to build the special interest group community.
 
Some first ideas on activities of the SIG’s are:

1. A zoom meeting every 2 months, and in between contacts and work for relevant voluntary projects
2. Having updates in the newsletter
3. Having a spot on the website where SIG’s can place updates
4. Having social media channels to spread knowledge and ideas (ISAGA has a linked in, facebook and a Twitter account)
5. Help each other with writing scientific publications on a topic
6. Share new insights, backgrounds, materials, game tests
7. Each group can set a planning with agenda with input from all members based on their interests

We hope to receive your response soon, so we can get these SIGs active and growing!
 
Best,
 
ISAGA Executive Board,
Heide, Elena, Marieke
 

Indore ISAGA conference

It’s with great pleasure to announce that this year’s conference will be organized as a hybrid event at the Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya University in Indore, India, 06.-10.09.2021.
Please consider submitting your work for (virtual) presentation and/or (remote) participation – and let’s celebrate our great global community of simulation games researchers and practitioners.
Selected papers will be published as proceedings within Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
 
More information on the conference can be found here: www.isaga2021.com

This Saturday another webinar by Dr.  Sivasailam Thiagarajan organized by our fantastic colleagues at Indore India

 
Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore is inviting Officials, ISAGA Members, GS professionals, Academicians, Research Scholars & Students (UG and Higher) to attend the Fourteenth Webinar of the series on April 24, 2021. The Details of the webinar are as below:

Webinar Topic:	“Simulations and Training Games through Live Online Delivery”
Speaker	Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Bloomington, USA
Date	April 24, 2021
Time	03:00 to 04:05 p.m. (IST)

 
No Registration Fee. E- Certificate will be provided to all the active registered participants.
Register here: https://forms.gle/Cg9CuX4LbZmFLC6q9
Website: - www.isaga2021.com, Email: isaga2021@svvv.edu.in
 
Actual information about Indore webinars is available at: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/
 
 

AACSB online course on
Teaching with Business Simulation Games
June 1-18, 2021

 
 
How engaged are your students in your classes? Are they being challenged with real-world exercises and receiving performance feedback in real-time? AACSB International has designed a course to help instructors integrate business simulation games into their teaching efficiently, effectively, and with confidence. By participating in this course, instructors will become proficient and reflective practitioners of teaching with business simulation games, thereby improving student engagement and learning outcomes, as well as increasing their own professional satisfaction.
Facilitator: Tim Rogmans, Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the College of Business at Zayed University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
For further information: https://aacsb.edu/events/online/2021/teaching-wish-business-simulation-games-june.
 

Call for papers
Book Proposal 2022

Dear colleagues,
M. Laura Angelini & Rut Muñiz invite you to participate in a book proposal on simulation. This book project aims to be an essential reference for those directly involved in simulations in education in different fields of study. The added value is the combination of simulation and virtual exchange as a collaborative intercultural approach.
 
Authors wish to undertake a collection of different visions which asks the following questions:

1. What fields of study can be benefitted by the use of simulation?
2. From the facilitation perspective, what facilitative capacities are needed in the simulation?
3. To what extent does the integration of simulation and virtual exchange report impact on the learning of a) teachers/facilitators and b) pre-service teachers, in-service teachers/participants?
4. How is learning theorized in the simulation literature?

 
Coordinators:
M.Laura Angelini, accredited lecturer and researcher at the Universidad Católica of Valencia 'San Vicente Mártir', the Chief Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group on Active Learning and Assessment (IGALA). She has recently published the books “Learning Through Simulations. Ideas for Educational Practitioners” (2021) Ed. Springer: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030655396; and “La simulación como estrategia educativa. Propuesta adaptada para el medio físico y virtual” (2021) Ed. Dykinson. E-mail: marialaura.angelini@ucv.es.
Rut Muñiz, Teacher of English for specific purposes (business, legal and technological) at the Universidad Católica de Valencia (UCV). E-mail: rut.muniz@ucv.es.
 
Below, you will find a tentative table of contents. If you’d like to participate with a chapter, please, write back before 30th April, 2021 and indicate next to the proposed list, which one you would go for.
 
Dates are flexible within a certain extend.
Abstract + outline proposal: 31.07.2021
Draft chapter 1: 31.10.2021
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Situating simulation in Teacher Education

1.       Overview of applications of simulation in fields other than teacher education
2.       Overview of applications of simulation in teacher education
3.       Introduction – including basic introduction of simulation methodology
4.       Virtual exchange to enhance simulation practice across boarders

Enabling simulation in Teacher Education
5.        Simulation partners
6.        The thorny issue of time
7.        Considering how we embed simulation in educational cultures – the case of normalization process theory
 
Addressing educational issues through thematic simulation scenarios.
8.        Simulation and the treatment of literature in secondary school.
9.        Simulation and preparing teachers to work with learners with diverse abilities.
10.      Simulation in pedagogic instruction
11.      Simulation in English learning
12.      Simulation + Virtual Exchange in English for Specific Purposes learning: the case of Marketing Across Cultures and Think Local, Work Global in Virtual Teams.
13.      Combining Simulation + Virtual Exchange for training future lawyers.
 
Reflections
14.      The wider perspective on simulation and virtual exchange – developing a holistic view of practitioner development
15.      The future of simulation and virtual exchange in Teacher Education

 

The 2021 James Paul Gee Learning Games Award

 
Enter to win the coolest new award in learning games! Finalists get free registration to Play Make Learn, a GEE! Award badge for your website, and the chance to showcase your game.
In the spirit of James Paul Gee, we’re looking for video games that are fun, educational, and novel. Finalists will showcase their games online during the virtual Play Make Learn conference on August 5-6. Send us your best! 
Application Deadline: applications are Due June 1 2021 by 11:59PM. Finalists will be announced June 15.
 
Judging Criteria:
Does it Empower Learners?
Does it create Problems Worth Solving?
Does it create Deep Understanding?
Does it work smoothly?
Is it visually interesting?
Is it original?
 
More information at: https://www.geeawards.com/
 

Calendar

 

Dates		Website/links	Special notes
Date: April 24, 2021 (Saturday) Indore Online Webinar Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan (the famous “Thiagi”!)	“Simulations and Training Games through Live Online Delivery”	Registration Link: https://forms.gle/Cg9CuX4LbZmFLC6q9   For the full program: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/	When you register you also receive the exact time and the link to the zoom meeting. All webinars of the past can be viewed on the YouTube channel
Date: 01 May, 2021 (Saturday)   Indore Online Webinar   Dr. Bhimaraya Metri	“Business Games: Powerful Tools to Develop Mindset for Future of Work”	Registration Link: https://forms.gle/92zYTQrgjABpesyKA For the full program: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/	When you register you also receive the exact time and the link to the zoom meeting. All webinars of the past can be viewed on the YouTube channel
Date: May 8, 2021 (Saturday)   Indore Online Webinar David Wortley	“360-degree Immersive Technologies for Medical Simulation, Digital Therapeutics and Clinical Education and Training”	Registration Link: https://forms.gle/6qEMZLCLcfyKAtnt9    For the full program: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/	When you register you also receive the exact time and the link to the zoom meeting. All webinars of the past can be viewed on the YouTube channel
Date: May 15, 2021 (Saturday) Indore Online Webinar Claudia M Schmitz	“The Art of Facilitation”	Registration Link: https://forms.gle/BpZTyyDjcUWwZFmi8 For the full program: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/	When you register you also receive the exact time and the link to the zoom meeting. All webinars of the past can be viewed on the YouTube channel
21 and 28 May & 4 June, 2021	International Ocean-Climate School	The theme is ocean, coast and climate literacy. The School is an official event of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Numbers are limited, so we advise early application.	https://oceansclimate.wixsite.com/oceansclimate   Application: https://forms.gle/puMbjseXovBLBN9ZA
Date: May 22, 2021 (Saturday)   Indore Online Webinar   Bharath Palavalli	“Gaming-simulations as tools to increase participation and inclusion, reduce time in policy-making and design better public-policy.”	Registration Link: https://forms.gle/NznauvjJaQLS9wfk6   For the full program: http://www.isaga2021.com/webinars/	When you register you also receive the exact time and the link to the zoom meeting. All webinars of the past can be viewed on the YouTube channel
June 7 – 8 2021	Games for health conference		www.gfheu.org
June 1 – 18 2021	Online course Teaching with Business Simulation Games	https://aacsb.edu/events/online/2021/teaching-wish-business-simulation-games-june.
June 17 – 18 2021	33e Europäische planspiel forum SAGSAGA	Programm des EPF 2021	Program mainly for German speaking participants
June 22 – 24 2021	LEARNTEC 2021		https://www.learntec.de/en/
July 12 – 17 2021	Games for Change Festival		https://festival.gamesforchange.org
August 23 – 27 2021	Summerschool Japan		More information will follow, this will probably be a multi-site hybrid event.
September 6-10 2021	52nd Annual International Conference of the INTERNATIONAL SIMULATION AND GAMING ASSOCIATION Indore, INDIA	Please submit your proposals and register for the conference at:   isaga2021@svvv.edu.in   For more information regarding the conference, please visit us at: http://www.isaga2021.com	It was decided this conference will be in a hybrid form