{"id":223,"date":"2024-06-20T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:44:33","slug":"008-an-interview-with-matthew-barr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/008-an-interview-with-matthew-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"008: An Interview with Matthew Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img width = 100 src = \"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/authors_images\/barr_m.jpg\">\n<br><br>\nMatthew 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&#8217;s School of Computing Science. \n\nHe 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 &#038; Gaming  Lab, the Author of &#8216;Graduate Skills and Game-Based Learning&#8217;., and the Editor at Open Scholarship of Teaching &#038; Learning (osotl.org). \n\nIn this interview, Matthew shares his experience and insights on games, game design, and how games can be used to promote learning and motivation.\n<br><br>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-15283574\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2296094\/15283574-008-an-interview-with-matthew-barr.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-15283574&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<h2> Episode Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href = \"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthewbarr\/\"> Matthew on Linkedin <\/a>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2> About the Interviewer<\/h2>\nPatrick 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.\n\nPatrick Felicia is the author of <a href = \"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/Patrick-Felicia\/author\/B00K3O5Z6C\">4 best-selling books on games development and programming<\/a>, including the series called \u201cUnity from Zero to Proficiency\u201d.\n\nThrough his books, training videos,<a href = \"http:\/\/www.igbl-conference.com\"> conferences <\/a> and summits, he\u2019s helped thousands of people on their journey to creating their games and learning how to code in the process\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbl-summit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}