International Game Developers Association

How To Use This Template

We also have a video of how to do this! Step 1: Click on "edit this page" at the top of this page. Step 2: Copy the template text into the clipboard. Step 3: While the edit box for the template page is still open, add a link to the new course you want to add, e.g. [[My Course's Name]], then save the page. Step 4: There will now be a red link to your course on the page. Click on it! Step 5: Paste in the template from the clipboard, and start editing! Delete all the text above the area where it says to put the course's full name and then fill in all the areas with italicized text that you want to fill in and delete the parts you don't plan to use.

The information in this article is obsolete or its methods deprecated. Please the following page instead: Making a new course page

In an effort to help visualize the Curriculum Framework and to analyze what needs improvement, eliminate redundancies and show best practices we will be collecting sample syllabi that illuminate the established framework. Collecting syllabi is the first step in a process. All materials are protected by a creative commons license. You are free to use our default or create one of our own. We believe in protecting the intellectual property rights of the participants.

This is a first shot at showing how some of the ideas for what educators may want to record about their courses could be represented as wiki articles. This is very much a work in progress and will be changing a lot as an article template in the coming months.

In a real course article, the article name would probably be the name of the course, perhaps with the term/semester (e.g. Fall 2006) and the school (e.g. WPI) appended at the end to help ensure global uniqueness of names.

First time here?

Here's a nice page to help you get started on this wiki.

To make a new course page based upon this template:

1. Click on "edit this page" at the top of this page.
2. Copy the source text of the page into your clipboard
3. While the edit page is still open, add a link under the "Pages using this template" section in the article template's text
   • Save the changes to the page by pressing the "Save content" button
4. Click on the new link (which will be red in color)
   • A new page will come up with an empty edit box
5. Paste the copied source text into the box, modify as you see fit (you don't have to do it all now and should probably work in chunks) and save the changes
   • To start, you can delete all the text above the area where it says to put the course's full name and then fill in all the areas with italicized text that you want to fill in and delete the parts you don't plan to use.

Pages using this template: Here's a convenient place for new course article creators to put a link to their course when creating the new page

• Pennsylvania State University: Game Design and Development
• My New Course Page
• WPI IMGD 1000
• WPI IMGD 1001 - The Game Development Process
• UTS: Game Design
• UTS: Game Programming
• Cal Poly, Pomona: Programming Game Engines
• Basic Game Creation for Fun and Learning
• Columbia University Teachers College MSTU5510 Video Games and Education - Seminar
• OU TCOM 486: Digital Game Industry Survey

Full name: Put Full Course Title Here

Games Education
Course

Teachers

Instructors

• Joseph Schmoe
• Susan Q.

Guest speakers

• First guest
• Second guest

List guest speakers for the course or visits to Opera, companies, etc.

Course Background Information

Location

Classification

See: Areas for classifing for your course.

Primary classification:

Secondary classification:

Student background needed

Course prerequisites

(describe the course's prerequisites in terms of skills that students need to know)

Time periods

Describe how the class was spread out over time, for example:

• Over what length of time was the course taught?
• How often did the class meet and how long were the classes??

Course Structure

Course description

Course learning objectives

what do you expect the students to learn?

Week by week topics

Course Materials & Facilities Used

Here you can link to and/or describe books and other materials you used for this course. Feel free to create new pages for each item here if a page for it does not yet exist.

Books

Book Example 1

Book Example 2

Other materials

Papers, magazines, videos (add links to online materials)

Software (engines, tools)

This could me a mix of external links to software on other servers and links to other wiki pages outlining those tools, which could be useful.

Syllabus

(link to an uploaded syllabus file or external storage location)

Slides

(link to each file's storage location)

Assessment materials

e.g. tests, quizzes, assignment requirements, project requirements

Digital media used in class

e.g. Video, Multimedia sources, Audio

(link to each file's storage location)

Case studies

(link to each file's storage location) or each respective wiki page

Tutorial files

(link to each file's storage location)

Other materials

(link to an uploaded resources -- e.g. research papers -- or external storage location)

Analysis of learning methods

What worked

Please discuss what techniques worked well

What didn't work

Please discuss what techniques didn’t work as well as you had hoped