Hi all,
there is a nice, free 6-week course of the University of Wisconsin at Coursera which deals with "Video Games and Learning". They are now in the second week and I suppose you can register (free) and take the video lectures (about 40-60 minute lecture in total each week) which are in fact quite interesting!
https://class.coursera.org/videogameslearning-001/class/index
Course syllabus:
Week One ? Introduction: Games and Learning?! (Available Today)
Week Two ? Game Design for Learning? (Begins October 15th)
Week Three ? Game Culture & Learning (Begins October 22nd)
Week Four ? Games & Cognition (Begins October 29th)
Week Five ? Games & Content Subject Matter (Begins November 5th)
Week Six ? Games & The Institution of Education (Begins November 12th)
For example, in week two, one of the topics is about the three different phases in game creation:
1. Concept phase
2. Design phase
3. Prototyping phase
The transformational game development process
Kind regards,
Dan