Thomas Connolly

Birgitte Holm Sørensen

Mark Stansfield


Suzanne de Castell

Bente Meyer


Thorkild Hanghøj

ECGBL Conference Director:

Thomas Connolly, University of the West of Scotland, UK

2010 Conference Chair:

Birgitte Holm Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

ECGBL Programme Director:

Mark Stansfield, University of the West of Scotland, UK

2010 Programme Chair:

Bente Meyer, Aarhus University, Denmark

Keynote speakers:

Dr Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University, Canada -  “Reversing the Order of Play: Gender and Games Research as Educational Intervention”

and

Dr Thorkild Hanghøj, Aarhus University, Denmark- “Gaming, Schooling and Knowing”

The 4th annual European Conference on Games Based Learning was hosted by The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.

Conference Status
The conference is now closed. Information on ECGBL 2011, to be held in Athens, Greece on 20-21 October 2011, can be found here. Applications are now being accepted to join the 2011 conference committee – Please click on the conference committee button to access the application form.

To join the mailing list for the conference and receive updates on progress, click on the keep me informed.

Publication opportunity
Papers presented at the conference were published in the conference proceedings and selected papers are being considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Learning and to the International Journal of Game-Based Learning. The latest issue of the Electronic Journal of e-Learning is available to read online.

Conference and Journal Accreditations

ECGBL conference proceedings are:

§   listed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Index Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings)

§   listed in the Thomson Reuters Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP)

§   indexed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK.

§   listed in the EBSCO database

Conference publications are submitted for accreditation on publication. Please note that depending on the accreditation body, this process can take several months.

The Electronic Journal of e-Learning is:

§   rated level 1 in the Danish Government bibliometric lists

§   rated level 1 in the Norwegian register of scientific journals and publishers

§   listed in the Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities

§   listed in the Open Access Journals database

§   listed in the EBSCO database of electronic journals

§   indexed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK.