GOET’s concrete aims and objectives are to support the acquisition and use of knowledge skills and qualifications to facilitate Basic Skills, Personal Development and Employment Preparation.
David Brown, NTU’s Professor of Interactive Systems for Social Inclusion and Penny Standen, Professor of Health, Psychology and Learning Disabilities, at the University of Nottingham discuss their research into ‘serious games’.
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Work has been continuing on a major European ‘Serious Games’ project, in which a series of web based computer games develop skills that will enhance life and work skills for a number of disengaged groups.
‘Game On Extra Time’ aims to support people with learning disabilities in getting and keeping a job by helping them to learn more independent living skills and skills that will help them in their working day. A money management module has been added to the curriculum.
In addition, GOET is developing games for the mobile phone that will provide a personalised memory timeline – giving prompts throughout the day to remind the client of important things to remember to do to prepare for leaving the house and throughout the working day.
Game On Extra Time is being delivered by European partners network consisting of project leaders Nottingham Trent University, Greenhat Interactive and bid services, all UK based, Imotec, specialist in mobile technologies based in Lithuania and University of Pannonia from Hungry.
bid services role is to ensure all of the games produced are accessible and relevant to Deaf people in the UK, a role which the charity feels is key to the project, as explained by bid services Training Officer Lynda Leddington; “Our role in Game On Extra Time is to help develop the curriculum by focussing on the creation of meaningful and suitable training to match the needs of students and the realities in the work place.”
Local charity bid services is working on a major European project that will enhance employment opportunities for people with learning difficulties and sensory disabilities.
‘Game On Extra Time’ is a continuation of the Game On project, led by Nottingham Trent University, in which a series of web based computer games to develop literacy and numeracy skills have been developed. bid services role within the original Game On project was to ensure all of the games produced were accessible and relevant to Deaf people in the UK, a role which the charity will be reprising as part of Game On Extra Time, as explained by bid services Training Officer Lynda Leddington; “Our role in Game On Extra Time is to help develop the curriculum by focussing on the creation of meaningful and suitable training to match the needs of students and the realities in the work place.”
Game On Extra Time is being delivered by a European partners network consisting of project leaders Nottingham Trent University, Greenhat Interactive and bid services, all UK based, Imotec, specialist in mobile technologies based in Lithuania and University of Pannonia from Hungry.
The partners’ representatives were brought together for the first time at a conference held in Nottingham from the 5th -8th November 2008 to kick off the project. During the conference the partners’ covered a range of subjects from project implementation and delivery through to promoting and communicating the project at European levels but it was not all hard work; “We made sure that we could share some of our culture with our European partners and got to know each other. It is vital that good working relationships are built up early on for successful project delivery. We will be working closely with each other for the next two years so it is really important we get off on the right foot.” Said project coordinator for Nottingham David Brown.
