Matthew Barr is the Head of the Education and Practice (EAP) Section and Programme Director for the Graduate Apprenticeship in Software Engineering at the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science.
He is also The founder of the Ada Scotland Festival (ada.scot), the director of Education at SICSA (sicsa.ac.uk), the Co-director of the University of Glasgow Games & Gaming Lab, the Author of ‘Graduate Skills and Game-Based Learning’., and the Editor at Open Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (osotl.org).
In this interview, Matthew shares his experience and insights on games, game design, and how games can be used to promote learning and motivation.
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Patrick Felicia (MSc, Phd) is a lecturer and researcher at Waterford Institute of Technology, where he teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of Games Development and Programming. He is the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL), and the Conference Director of the Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning, a popular conference on games and learning.
Patrick Felicia is the author of
4 best-selling books on games development and programming, including the series called “Unity from Zero to Proficiency”.
Through his books, training videos,
conferences and summits, he’s helped thousands of people on their journey to creating their games and learning how to code in the process